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

Dyson, F. J. (2012). History of science. Is science mostly driven by ideas or by tools? Science 338, 1426–1427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pucadyil, T. J., and Schmid, S. L. (2009). Conserved functions of membrane active GTPases in coated vesicle formation. Science 325, 1217–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, G.-Z., Radtke, G., and Botton, G. A. (2012). Bonding and structure of a reconstructed (001) surface of SrTiO3 from TEM. Nature 490, 384–387.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Urich, T., Gomes, C. M., Kletzin, A., and Frazão, C. (2006). X-ray Structure of a self-compartmentalizing sulfur cycle metalloenzyme. Science 311, 996–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasher, E., and Ronen, T. (2011). The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bebis, G., Boyle, R., Parvin, B., Koracin, D., Wang, S., Kyungnam, K., et al. eds. (2011). Advances in Visual Computing: 7th International Symposium, ISVC 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 26-28, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hämmerli, M. (2016). “Orthodox Church(es) Stepping out of the Orthodox Heartland,” in Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body, eds. S. Snyder, J. Ralston, and A. M. Brazal (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 51–63.

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). Clumps Of Alzheimer’s-Associated Molecule Found In Young Adult Brains. 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 (1980). The National Institute of Education Should Further Increase Minority and Female Participation in Its Activities. 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

Courtney, S. J. (2015). A Sea of Voices: An Alchemical Journey Through Dissociation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Fuller, T., Turkewitz, J., Alcindor, Y., Dougherty, C., and Kovaleski, S. F. (2016). A ‘Ghost Ship’ All but Unseen, Until 36 Died. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dyson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Pucadyil and Schmid, 2009; Dyson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pucadyil and Schmid, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Urich et al., 2006)

About the journal

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