How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cognition citation style

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

Glassmeier, K.-H. (2009). Planetary science. Magnetic twisters on Mercury. Science 324, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim-Muller, J. Y., and Accili, D. (2011). Cell biology. Selective insulin sensitizers. Science 331, 1529–1531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mulligan, C. J., Kitchen, A., and Miyamoto, M. M. (2006). Comment on “Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals.” Science 314, 1390.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Royer, J. R., Evans, D. J., Oyarte, L., Guo, Q., Kapit, E., Möbius, M. E., et al. (2009). High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely falling granular streams. Nature 459, 1110–1113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bishop, C. A. (2015). Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bandrova, T., Konecny, M., and Zlatanova, S. eds. (2014). Thematic Cartography for the Society. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schreurs, M. A. (2016). “The German Energiewende in a European Context,” in Germany’s Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective, eds. C. Hager and C. H. Stefes (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 91–110.

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 Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice. 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 (2006). Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations. 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

Gada, K. K. (2015). Numerical analyses of passive and active flow control over a micro air vehicle with an optimized airfoil. 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

Feeney, K. (2010). Baked Treats of Portugal. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glassmeier, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Glassmeier, 2009; Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Royer et al., 2009)

About the journal

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