How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuromuscular Diseases citation style

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

Gaskell, C. M. (2010). Close supermassive binary black holes. Nature 463, E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mathôt, S., and Theeuwes, J. (2013). A reinvestigation of the reference frame of the tilt-adaptation aftereffect. Sci. Rep. 3, 1152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furey, M. L., Pietrini, P., and Haxby, J. V. (2000). Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science 290, 2315–2319.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shen, W., Wang, C., Xia, L., Fan, C., Dong, H., Deckelbaum, R. J., et al. (2014). Epigenetic modification of the leptin promoter in diet-induced obese mice and the effects of N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Sci. Rep. 4, 5282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., Uhrig, S., and Sainrat, P. (2013). Time-Predictable Architectures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Whitacre, D. M. ed. (2010). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 206. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Facchini, F., and Trevisan, F. (2005). “From National to Regional Criteria for H-LTOT,” in Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment in Italy: The Additional Value of Telemedicine, eds. R. W. D. Negro and A. I. Goldberg (Milano: Springer), 27–41.

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 Neuromuscular Diseases.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Hands-Free “Bionic” Penis In Development. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/handsfree-bionic-penis-in-development-/ (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 (1994). Aviation Safety: FAA’s Assessment of Pre-flight Service Technology Options. 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

Luo, P. (2010). Evaluation of the flicker effect as a generative strategy in enhancing computer -based instruction (CBI) of visual recognition and classification. 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

Crow, K. (2000). One Drugstore Too Many, One Grocery Too Few? New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaskell, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gaskell, 2010; Mathôt and Theeuwes, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mathôt and Theeuwes, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al., 2014)

About the journal

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