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

Koen, D. (2007). Time to make haste. Nature 447, 1030.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thybo, H., and Nielsen, C. A. (2009). Magma-compensated crustal thinning in continental rift zones. Nature 457, 873–876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soares, L., Parisi, M., and Bonini, N. M. (2014). Axon injury and regeneration in the adult Drosophila. Sci. Rep. 4, 6199.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keiling, A., Wygant, J. R., Cattell, C. A., Mozer, F. S., and Russell, C. T. (2003). The global morphology of wave Poynting flux: powering the aurora. Science 299, 383–386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi, N.-E., and Han, J. H. (2015). How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Berkowitz, L., and McCarthy, C. eds. (2013). Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lozneanu, E., and Sanduloviciu, M. (2008). “Cell-like space charge configurations formed by self-organization in laboratory,” in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems, eds. A. A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 31–38.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Watch A Bald Eagle Snatch A Baby Osprey From Its Nest. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-a-bald-eagle-snatch-a-baby-osprey-from-its-nest/ (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). Improper Payments: Weaknesses in USAID’s and NASA’s Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act and Recovery Auditing. 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

Wulfsberg, J. C. (2015). Singing Turkish, performing Turkishness: Message and audience in the song competition of the International Turkish Olympiad. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Saslow, L. (2008). Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2007; Thybo and Nielsen, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Thybo and Nielsen, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Keiling et al., 2003)

About the journal

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