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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 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

Russell, L. M. (2015). Atmospheric science: Sea-spray particles cause freezing in clouds. Nature 525, 194–195.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorincz, A., and Nusser, Z. (2010). Molecular identity of dendritic voltage-gated sodium channels. Science 328, 906–909.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins, M. W., Welters, W. J., and Weekamp, J. W. (2001). Fluid control in multichannel structures by electrocapillary pressure. Science 291, 277–280.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang, T., Dong, J., Liu, L., Liao, S., Tan, S., Shi, L., et al. (2014). Experimental observation of optical differentiation and optical Hilbert transformation using a single SOI microdisk chip. Sci. Rep. 4, 3960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayor, R. H. (2017). Fiorello La Guardia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kurz, A., Lenisa, M., and Tarlecki, A. eds. (2009). Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: Third International Conference, CALCO 2009, Udine, Italy, September 7-10, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lundström, A., and Zhou, C. (2014). “Rethinking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises: A Three-Dimensional Perspective,” in Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions, eds. A. Lundström, C. Zhou, Y. von Friedrichs, and E. Sundin (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 71–89.

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 Neuroinformatics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). The First “Space Nation” Wants You To Live On Their Orbital Space Station. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-first-space-nation-wants-you-to-live-on-their-orbital-space-station/ (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 (2000). Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Accountability for Taxpayer Relief Act Funds. 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

Moon, M. M. (2009). The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). For Ahkeem. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lorincz and Nusser, 2010; Russell, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lorincz and Nusser, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroinform.
ISSN (online)	1662-5196
Scope	Computer Science Applications Biomedical Engineering Neuroscience (miscellaneous)