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

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

Joughin, I. (2006). Climate change. Greenland rumbles louder as glaciers accelerate. Science 311, 1719–1720.

A journal article with 2 authors

Daubin, V., and Moran, N. A. (2004). Comment on “The origins of genome complexity.” Science 306, 978; author reply 978.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lestas, I., Vinnicombe, G., and Paulsson, J. (2010). Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations. Nature 467, 174–178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rowe, C. M., Loope, D. B., Oglesby, R. J., Van der Voo, R., and Broadwater, C. E. (2007). Inconsistencies between Pangean reconstructions and basic climate controls. Science 318, 1284–1286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strachman, D., and Bookbinder, R. (2009). Fund of Funds Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heams, T., Huneman, P., Lecointre, G., and Silberstein, M. eds. (2015). Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Barnes, A. J. (2016). “Childhood Stress and Resilience,” in Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents, ed. M. R. Korin (Boston, MA: Springer US), 85–98.

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 Cognitive Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017). For Cockeyed Squid, Survival Depends On Mismatched Eyes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/for-cockeyed-squid-survival-depends-on-mismatched-eyes/ (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 (2007). Implementation of the Beach Act of 2000: EPA and States Have Made Progress, but Additional Actions Could Improve Public Health Protection. 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

Lai, J.-P. (2008). Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten (PTEN) As A Molecular Target in Lung Epithelial Wound Repair and Protection. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Walsh, M. W. (2017). Just 40% of Losses May Be Covered, and Taxpayers Will Bear Most. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joughin, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Daubin and Moran, 2004; Joughin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Daubin and Moran, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Rowe et al., 2007)

About the journal

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