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

Eisenstein, M. (2012). Pregnancy: Delivery from breast cancer. Nature 485, S54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rambo, R. P., and Tainer, J. A. (2013). Accurate assessment of mass, models and resolution by small-angle scattering. Nature 496, 477–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, G., Zhang, Y., and Hao, J. (2014). Tuning of near-infrared luminescence of SrTiO3:Ni2+ thin films grown on piezoelectric PMN-PT via strain engineering. Sci. Rep. 4, 5724.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Giraudo, C. G., Eng, W. S., Melia, T. J., and Rothman, J. E. (2006). A clamping mechanism involved in SNARE-dependent exocytosis. Science 313, 676–680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mowlaee, P., Kulmer, J., Stahl, J., and Mayer, F. (2017). Single Channel Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication: Theory and Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ábrahám, E., and Havelund, K. eds. (2014). Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 20th International Conference, TACAS 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beck, M., and Geoghegan, R. (2010). “Underlying Notions in Set Theory,” in The Art of Proof: Basic Training for Deeper Mathematics Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics., ed. R. Geoghegan (New York, NY: Springer), 47–54.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Drone Captures Aerial Footage Of Whale Shark And Manta Ray Feeding Frenzy. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drone-captures-aerial-footage-whale-shark-and-manta-ray-feeding-frenzy/ [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 (2009). Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center: Clarifying Rationale for the Research and Development Funding Decisions Would Increase Accountability. 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

Wilkins, D. (2015). The Value of the Semantic Differential to the Art Educator.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2016). Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times, SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein, 2012; Rambo and Tainer, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rambo and Tainer, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Giraudo et al., 2006)

About the journal

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

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