How to format your references using the Frontiers in Consciousness Research citation style

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

Guan, J.-L. (2004). Cell biology. Integrins, rafts, Rac, and Rho. Science 303, 773–774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Odegaard, J. I., and Chawla, A. (2013). Pleiotropic actions of insulin resistance and inflammation in metabolic homeostasis. Science 339, 172–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Leung, A. K. W., Nagai, K., and Li, J. (2011). Structure of the spliceosomal U4 snRNP core domain and its implication for snRNP biogenesis. Nature 473, 536–539.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shpak, E. D., McAbee, J. M., Pillitteri, L. J., and Torii, K. U. (2005). Stomatal patterning and differentiation by synergistic interactions of receptor kinases. Science 309, 290–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, S. (2011). Reading the American Novel 1780-1865. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Genz, A. (2009). Computation of Multivariate Normal and t Probabilities., ed. F. Bretz. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarthy, S., and Jiang, Q. (2009). “MODELING CONTINUOUS QUERIES OVER DATA STREAMS,” in Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing, ed. S. Chakravarthy (Boston, MA: Springer US), 49–93.

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 Consciousness Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Mars One Torn To Shreds In MIT Debate. 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 (2010). Aviation Security: Progress Made but Actions Needed to Address Challenges in Meeting the Air Cargo Screening Mandate. 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

Ledgister, N. L. (2015). A study of transformational leadership and job satisfaction among leaders in Jamaica Baptist Union churches. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Wagner, J. (2017). Brought Together by a Fight With Cancer and a Love of Baseball. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guan, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Guan, 2004; Odegaard and Chawla, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Odegaard and Chawla, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shpak et al., 2005)

About the journal

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