How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neurogenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neurogenomics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kaiser, C. R. (2007). Astronomy. Simmering, not boiling. Science 318, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palumbi, S. R., and Warner, R. R. (2003). Ecology. Why gobies are like Hobbits. Science 299, 51–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beachy, P. A., Karhadkar, S. S., and Berman, D. M. (2004). Mending and malignancy. Nature 431, 402.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Porter, E. A., Wang, X., Lee, H. S., Weisblum, B., and Gellman, S. H. (2000). Non-haemolytic beta-amino-acid oligomers. Nature 404, 565.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Kulaev, I. S., Vagabov, V. M., and Kulakovskaya, T. V. (2005). The Biochemistry of Inorganic Polyphosphates. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vardanega, T., and Wellings, A. eds. (2005). Reliable Software Technology – Ada-Europe 2005: 10th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, York, UK, June 20-24, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hill, D. (2016). “Adding Value: Building Mutually Beneficial Strategic Partnerships,” in 50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, ed. A. Hoffman (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 47–55.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Neurogenomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Ocean Acidification: The Forgotten Piece Of The Carbon Puzzle. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ocean-acidification-forgotten-piece-carbon-puzzle/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2001). Aviation Competition: Challenges in Enhancing Competition in Dominated Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sun, Z. (2013). A qualitative study of Chinese parents’ beliefs, involvement and challenges in support of their children’s English language development in China. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Apuzzo, M., and Schmidt, M. S. (2017). Comey Expected to Testify About His Talks With Trump. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Palumbi and Warner, 2003; Kaiser, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Palumbi and Warner, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Porter et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurogenomics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)