How to format your references using the Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Trenberth, K. E. (2002). Changes in tropical clouds and radiation. Science 296, 2095.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dominé, F., and Shepson, P. B. (2002). Air-snow interactions and atmospheric chemistry. Science 297, 1506–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Appelbaum, I., Huang, B., and Monsma, D. J. (2007). Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon. Nature 447, 295–298.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fleitmann, D., Burns, S. J., Mudelsee, M., Neff, U., Kramers, J., Mangini, A., et al. (2003). Holocene forcing of the Indian monsoon recorded in a stalagmite from southern Oman. Science 300, 1737–1739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meschede, D. (2017). Optics, Light, and Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Delicato, F. C. (2013). Middleware Solutions for the Internet of Things., eds. P. F. Pires and T. Batista. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chubarikov, V. N. (2006). “On the Hilbert-Kamke and the Vinogradov Problems in Additive Number Theory,” in Number Theory: Tradition and Modernization, eds. W. Zhang and Y. Tanigawa (Boston, MA: Springer US), 27–37.

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 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). Lost Medieval City Discovered On England-Wales Border. 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 (1996). Airline Deregulation: Barriers to Entry Continue to Limit Competition in Several Key Domestic 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

Kessler, C. (2013). Elements. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Kelly, C. (2012). Reshooting J. R., This Time on Home Territory. New York Times, A22A.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trenberth, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dominé and Shepson, 2002; Trenberth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Dominé and Shepson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fleitmann et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology