How to format your references using the Mindfulness citation style

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

Moore, P. (2003). Playing with the pieces. Nature, 426(6967), 725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunet, J., & Liston, A. (2001). Polyploidy and gender dimorphism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5508), 1441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dally, J. M., Emery, N. J., & Clayton, N. S. (2006). Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1662–1665.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chuang, C.-P., Yuan, T., Dmowski, W., Wang, G.-Y., Freels, M., Liaw, P. K., et al. (2013). Fatigue-induced damage in Zr-based bulk metallic glasses. Scientific reports, 3, 2578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Devolder, P., Janssen, J., & Manca, R. (2012). Stochastic Methods for Pension Funds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Olewiler, N., Francisco, H. A., & Ferrer, A. J. G. (Eds.). (2016). Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Valuation, Institutions, and Policy in Southeast Asia (1st ed. 2016.). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Damasio, H. (2005). Disorders of Social Conduct Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortices. In J.-P. Changeux, A. R. Damasio, W. Singer, & Y. Christen (Eds.), Neurobiology of Human Values (pp. 37–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Mindfulness.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 8). NASA Technology Saved Four Lives in Nepal Earthquake By Detecting Their Heartbeats. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasas-radar-technology-saved-four-lives-nepal-earthquake-disaster/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2014). Financial Literacy: Overview of Federal Activities, Programs, and Challenges (No. GAO-14-556T). 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

Chung, Y.-K. (2010). A comparison of particle swarm optimization algorithms in data clustering (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, July 27). Bruce Is Again Hitting Homers, and Again Not Attracting Interest. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brunet and Liston 2001; Moore 2003).

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

Two authors: (Brunet and Liston 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chuang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mindfulness
Abbreviation	Mindfulness (N. Y.)
ISSN (print)	1868-8527
ISSN (online)	1868-8535
Scope	Applied Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology Health(social science)