How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neurology Education citation style

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

Helbing, D. (2013). Globally networked risks and how to respond. Nature 497, 51–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perera, R. M., and Bardeesy, N. (2011). Cancer: when antioxidants are bad. Nature 475, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altewischer, E., van Exter, M. P., and Woerdman, J. P. (2002). Plasmon-assisted transmission of entangled photons. Nature 418, 304–306.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ke, J., Li, X., Zhao, Q., Hou, Y., and Chen, J. (2014). Ultrasensitive quantum dot fluorescence quenching assay for selective detection of mercury ions in drinking water. Sci. Rep. 4, 5624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsen, D. (2015). The Lean Product Playbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., and Li, L. eds. (2006). Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment: First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ansari, N., and Zhang, J. (2013). “Media Access Control and Resource Allocation in EPON and 10G-EPON,” in Media Access Control and Resource Allocation: For Next Generation Passive Optical Networks, ed. J. Zhang (New York, NY: Springer), 29–51.

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 Neurology Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Scientists Identify A Mechanism That Facilitates Brain Repair Following Stroke. IFLScience.

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 (1988). Civil Space: NASA’s Strategic Planning Process. 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

Legaspi, J. (2010). Accelerated supported employment program: A grant proposal. 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

Hodara, S. (2015). Before YouTube, Experimenting With Video. New York Times, WE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Helbing, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Perera and Bardeesy, 2011; Helbing, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Perera and Bardeesy, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ke et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurology Education
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology