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

Check, E. (2002). Safety panel backs principle of gene-therapy trials. Nature 420, 595.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeVore, N. M., and Scott, E. E. (2012). Structures of cytochrome P450 17A1 with prostate cancer drugs abiraterone and TOK-001. Nature 482, 116–119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W. K. W., Harrison, W. G., and Head, E. J. H. (2006). Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science 311, 1157–1160.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen, M., Kumar, D., Yi, C.-W., and Goodman, D. W. (2005). The promotional effect of gold in catalysis by palladium-gold. Science 310, 291–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski, E. J. (2009). Managing Hedge Fund Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hummel, K. A., Hlavacs, H., and Gansterer, W. eds. (2011). Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges: IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 International Workshop, PERFORM 2010, in Honor of Günter Haring on the Occasion of His Emeritus Celebration, Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arshad, S. (2016). “The Relationship Between Islamic Stock Markets and Business Cycles: A Regional Perspective,” in Islamic Capital Markets: Volatility, Performance and Stability, eds. N. Alam and S. A. R. Rizvi (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–65.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Climate Change Threatens Range of Bald Eagles and Half of American Bird Species. 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 (2015). Commercial Driver’s Licensing: Federal Oversight of State Programs Could 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

Heitz, S. L. (2017). A Mindfulness Approach to Help Teachers And Staff Provide Support to High School Students: A Self-Instructional Curriculum. 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

Chauncey, G. (2013). The Long Road to Marriage Equality. New York Times, A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2002; DeVore and Scott, 2012).

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

Two authors: (DeVore and Scott, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2005)

About the journal

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