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

Finney, B. (2007). Anthropology. Tracking Polynesian seafarers. Science 317, 1873–1874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farley, K. A., and Mukhopadhyay, S. (2001). An extraterrestrial impact at the Permian-Triassic boundary? Science 293, 2343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Wang, H., and Zhao, X. (2014). Effects of Rhodiola on production, health and gut development of broilers reared at high altitude in Tibet. Sci. Rep. 4, 7166.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blaser, E., Eglington, L., Carter, A. S., and Kaldy, Z. (2014). Pupillometry reveals a mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) advantage in visual tasks. Sci. Rep. 4, 4301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nasr, V. G., and DiNardo, J. A. (2017). The Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Clark, B. W. ed. (2009). Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosen, R. C., and Kupelian, V. (2016). “Epidemiology of Erectile Dysfunction and Key Risk Factors,” in Contemporary Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction: A Clinical Guide, eds. T. S. Köhler and K. T. McVary (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–56.

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, D. (2017). Here Are The Areas In The Us Most Likely To Be Struck In A Nuclear Attack By Russia. 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 (1979). Authority To Waive Claims by District of Columbia Against Employee or Former Employee. 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

Coggin, L. L. (2014). Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Pilon, M. (2012). Men’s and Women’s 800-Meter Teams Are Settled. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finney, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Farley and Mukhopadhyay, 2001; Finney, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Farley and Mukhopadhyay, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Blaser et al., 2014)

About the journal

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