How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering citation style

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

Kamel, F. (2013). Epidemiology. Paths from pesticides to Parkinson’s. Science 341, 722–723.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheridan, G. K., and Dev, K. K. (2014). Targeting S1P receptors in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice improves early deficits in locomotor activity and increases ultrasonic vocalisations. Sci. Rep. 4, 5051.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, J., Shen, L., and Zheng, D. (2014). Diagnostic value of circulating free DNA for the detection of EGFR mutation status in NSCLC: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6269.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bomati, E. K., Haley, J. E., Noel, J. P., and Deheyn, D. D. (2014). Spectral and structural comparison between bright and dim green fluorescent proteins in Amphioxus. Sci. Rep. 4, 5469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keiser, G. (2006). FTTX Concepts and Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moore, P. H., and Ming, R. eds. (2008). Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pande, A., and Zambreno, J. (2013). “Polymorphic Wavelet Transform,” in Embedded Multimedia Security Systems: Algorithms and Architectures, ed. J. Zambreno (London: Springer), 33–65.

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 Neuromorphic Engineering.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). Cost Of Hurricane Damage In The US Could Triple By 2100 Due To Global Warming. 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). Railroad Safety: Accidents in Pennsylvania and Related Federal Enforcement Actions. 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

O’Neal, L. (2016). What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Kelly, C. (2008). For Many, Thrift Shops Are a Wardrobe Essential. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kamel, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kamel, 2013; Sheridan and Dev, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sheridan and Dev, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bomati et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering
Abbreviation	Front. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-453X
Scope	General Neuroscience