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

Sobek, S. (2014). Climate science: cold carbon storage. Nature, 511(7510), 415–417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lopes, I., & Silk, J. (2010). Neutrino spectroscopy can probe the dark matter content in the Sun. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6003), 462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Y.-T. N., Yuan, X., & Velicer, G. J. (2010). Adaptive evolution of an sRNA that controls Myxococcus development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5981), 993.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lanza, R., Chung, Y., West, M. D., & Campbell, K. H. S. (2003). Comment on “Molecular correlates of primate nuclear transfer failures.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1482; author reply 1482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase, C. W., Jr. (2013). Demand-Driven Forecasting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Murrell, D. F. (Ed.). (2015). Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases (Vol. 5). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fortmann, L., Ndhlovu, A., Ndlovu, A., Philippe, R., Rodrigue, C., & Wilson, K. (2016). Climate Change and Social Sustainability: A Case for Polycentric Sustainabilities. In R. Lal, D. Kraybill, D. O. Hansen, B. R. Singh, T. Mosogoya, & L. O. Eik (Eds.), Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture: Climate Change and Sustainability in Agriculture (pp. 43–57). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, May 26). New Class Of Star Clusters Have A Weighty Problem. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-class-star-clusters-have-weighty-problem/. 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. (1977). Comments on the Proposed “Uniform Federal Research and Development Utilization Act of 1977” (No. PSAD-77-164). 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

Jones, C. (2015). Evolutionary changes in development associated with a transition in larval nutritional mode in spiralians (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

Dorman, J. L. (2017, January 12). How the Writer Cathy Salustri Found ‘Old Flordia.’ New York Times, p. TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sobek 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lopes and Silk 2010; Sobek 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lopes and Silk 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lanza et al. 2003)

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)

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