How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cognition citation style

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

Vyazovskiy, V. V. (2015). Neuroscience. Mapping the birth of the sleep connectome. Science 350, 909–910.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smyth, M. J., and Kershaw, M. H. (2011). Immunology. The adjuvant effects of antibodies. Science 333, 944–945.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, Y., White, L., and Hui, D. (2004). Comment on “Impacts of fine root turnover on forest NPP and soil C sequestration potential.” Science 304, 1745; author reply 1745.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cabrillac, D., Cock, J. M., Dumas, C., and Gaude, T. (2001). The S-locus receptor kinase is inhibited by thioredoxins and activated by pollen coat proteins. Nature 410, 220–223.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flaus, J.-M. (2013). Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Owusu, G., O’Brien, P., McCall, J., and Doherty, N. F. eds. (2013). Transforming Field and Service Operations: Methodologies for Successful Technology-Driven Business Transformation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Paoli, F., Maurino, A., Toma, I., O’Sullivan, J., Tilly, M., and Dobson, G. (2009). “Non-Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLA-SOC ’07) – Organizers’ Workshop Summary,” in Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops: ICSOC 2007, International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, eds. E. D. Nitto and M. Ripeanu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 43–44.

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 Cognition.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). New Crab Species Honors Harry Potter (And The Crustacean Of Secrets). IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-crab-species-honors-harry-potter-and-the-crustacean-of-secrets/ (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 (2004). National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Significant Actions Needed to Address Long-standing Financial Management Problems. 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

Staal, J. (2017). The Relationships Among Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Falls in Older Adults Residing in the Community. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Wyndham, S. (2017). The Circles of Hellhaus. New York Times, BR19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vyazovskiy, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Smyth and Kershaw, 2011; Vyazovskiy, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Smyth and Kershaw, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cabrillac et al., 2001)

About the journal

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