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

Miralda-Escudé, J. (2003). The Dark Age of the universe. Science 300, 1904–1909.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishida, H., and Sawada, K. (2001). macho-1 encodes a localized mRNA in ascidian eggs that specifies muscle fate during embryogenesis. Nature 409, 724–729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, M., Frisk, M., and Pennisi, E. (2012). Biomaterials. Introduction. Science 338, 899.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Akimitsu, J., Takenawa, K., Suzuki, K., Harima, H., and Kuramoto, Y. (2001). High-temperature ferromagnetism in CaB2C2. Science 293, 1125–1127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2010). Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Goldade, V. A. (2005). Plastics for Corrosion Inhibition., eds. L. S. Pinchuk, A. V. Makarevich, and V. N. Kestelman. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernsen, N. O., and Dybkjær, L. (2010). “Modalities and Devices,” in Multimodal Usability, ed. L. Dybkjær (London: Springer), 67–111.

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

Hamilton, K. (2014). How To Make A Rocket That Can Shoot 700 Metres Using Sugar And Kitty Litter. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-make-sugar-rockets/ (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 (1991). Services for the Elderly: Longstanding Transportation Problems Need More Federal Attention. 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

Krisher, J. (2017). Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells. 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

Feeney, K. (2008). Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miralda-Escudé, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Nishida and Sawada, 2001; Miralda-Escudé, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Nishida and Sawada, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Akimitsu et al., 2001)

About the journal

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