How to format your references using the Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Knoepfler, P. (2009). Journal club. A cell biologist looks at the risk and promise of a new insight into stem cells and cancer. Nature 457, 361.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kozlova, T., and Thummel, C. S. (2003). Essential roles for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila mid-embryonic development. Science 301, 1911–1914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fendorf, S., Michael, H. A., and van Geen, A. (2010). Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia. Science 328, 1123–1127.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiang, X., Qiao, L., Xiao, H. Y., Gao, F., Zu, X. T., Li, S., et al. (2014). Effects of surface defects on two-dimensional electron gas at NdAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Sci. Rep. 4, 5477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J. M. (2014). Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Proper, E., Gaaloul, K., Harmsen, F., and Wrycza, S. eds. (2012). Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation: 4th Working Conference, PRET 2012, Gdańsk, Poland, June 27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Badaloni, S., and Falda, M. (2005). “Discriminating Exanthematic Diseases from Temporal Patterns of Patient Symptoms,” in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005, Aberdeen, UK, July 23-27, 2005. Proceedings, eds. S. Miksch, J. Hunter, and E. T. Keravnou (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–42.

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 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Hope: The First Arab Space Probe Planned To Go To Mars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hope-first-arab-space-probe-go-mars/ (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 (1982). Strong Central Management of Office Automation Will Boost Productivity. 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

Thornsberry, J. L. (2010). Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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. (1999). For Everyone, Non-Russians, Too, There’s a Personal Pushkin. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knoepfler, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kozlova and Thummel, 2003; Knoepfler, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kozlova and Thummel, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology