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

Stearns, T. (2015). Cell biology. Centrioles, in absentia. Science 348, 1091–1092.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and Bruno, J. F. (2010). The impact of climate change on the world’s marine ecosystems. Science 328, 1523–1528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenn, K. M., Nusbaum, H. C., and Margoliash, D. (2003). Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language. Nature 425, 614–616.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao, H., Li, L., Wang, Y., and Wang, R. (2014). Shape-controllable formation of poly-imidazolium salts for stable palladium N-heterocyclic carbene polymers. Sci. Rep. 4, 5478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zack, G. M. (2012). Financial Statement Fraud. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Luks, A. M. (2013). Introduction to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing., eds. R. W. Glenny and H. T. Robertson. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brenner, D. J., Staley, J. T., and Krieg, N. R. (2005). “Classification of Procaryotic Organisms and the Concept of Bacterial Speciation,” in Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part A Introductory Essays, eds. D. J. Brenner, N. R. Krieg, J. T. Staley, and G. M. Garrity (Boston, MA: Springer US), 27–32.

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

Davis, J. (2016). Expedition Sets Sail To Assess Feasibility Of Deep-Sea Mining. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/expedition-sets-sail-to-assess-feasibility-of-deepsea-mining/ (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 (1982). Strong Central Management of Office Automation Will Boost Productivity. 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

Antoshin, S. (2010). Modeling inflation expectations in the U.K. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Shpigel, B. (2017). Raiders Manage to Play Without Leader, Barely. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stearns, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hoegh-Guldberg and Bruno, 2010; Stearns, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hoegh-Guldberg and Bruno, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2014)

About the journal

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