How to format your references using the Frontiers in Perception Science citation style

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

Trono, D. (2003). Virology. Picking the right spot. Science 300, 1670–1671.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, A. J., and Schwappach, B. (2010). Cell biology. Think vesicular chloride. Science 328, 1364–1365.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truog, R. D., Kesselheim, A. S., and Joffe, S. (2012). Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science 337, 37–38.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tulevski, G. S., Myers, M. B., Hybertsen, M. S., Steigerwald, M. L., and Nuckolls, C. (2005). Formation of catalytic metal-molecule contacts. Science 309, 591–594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ni, Z., Pacoret, C., Benosman, R., and Régnier, S. (2014). Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sicilia, M.-A., Kop, C., and Sartori, F. eds. (2010). Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science: 4th International Workshop, ONTOSE 2010, held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seeling, P., Fitzek, F. H. P., and Reisslein, M. (2007). “Metrics and Statistics for Video Traces,” in Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research, eds. F. H. P. Fitzek and M. Reisslein (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 45–58.

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 Perception Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). What Would Happen If The International Space Station Was Hit By A Meteoroid? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-would-happen-if-the-iss-was-hit-by-a-meteorite/ (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 (2012). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved. 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

Grugan, P. K. (2016). The mindfulness practice of clinicians: A systematic review. 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

Dominus, I. by S. (2013). ‘I Really Put Myself Out There.’ New York Times, MM14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trono, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Trono, 2003; Smith and Schwappach, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Schwappach, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tulevski et al., 2005)

About the journal

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