How to format your references using the Frontiers in Language Sciences citation style

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

Wollman, R. (2014). Development. Counting the ways to decode dynamic signals. Science 343, 1326–1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ekström, G., and Stark, C. P. (2013). Simple scaling of catastrophic landslide dynamics. Science 339, 1416–1419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, S., Hashimoto, N., and Ohnuki, S. (2013). Hydrogen-induced change in core structures of {110}[111] edge and {110}[111] screw dislocations in iron. Sci. Rep. 3, 2760.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jung, H. W., Tschaplinski, T. J., Wang, L., Glazebrook, J., and Greenberg, J. T. (2009). Priming in systemic plant immunity. Science 324, 89–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, E. (2012). Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Saxena, A. ed. (2013). Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery of the Foot and Ankle. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Norling, E. (2007). “Contrasting a System Dynamics Model and an Agent-Based Model of Food Web Evolution,” in Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers, eds. L. Antunes and K. Takadama (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 57–68.

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 Language Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017). Scientists Have Discovered A Secret Function Of Lungs. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-have-discovered-a-secret-function-of-lungs/ (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 (1985). Information on the Energy Information Administration’s Financial Reporting System. 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

Datta, A. (2017). Speech Synthesis Using Unsupervised Learning. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2011). Choir Festival to Celebrate St. Basil’s 450 Years. New York Times, TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wollman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ekström and Stark, 2013; Wollman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ekström and Stark, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jung et al., 2009)

About the journal

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