How to format your references using the Frontiers for Young Minds citation style

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

Smith C. The silent treatment. Nature (2003) 422:342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grande C, Patel NH. Nodal signalling is involved in left-right asymmetry in snails. Nature (2009) 457:1007–1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Asaadi N, Ribe NM, Sobouti F. Inferring nonlinear mantle rheology from the shape of the Hawaiian swell. Nature (2011) 473:501–504.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Swaddle TW, Rosenqvist J, Yu P, Bylaska E, Phillips BL, Casey WH. Kinetic evidence for five-coordination in AlOH(aq)2+ ion. Science (2005) 308:1450–1453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brodsky BS, Stanley B. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Primer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2013).

An edited book

Agarwal A, Gupta S, Sharma R eds. Andrological Evaluation of Male Infertility: A Laboratory Guide. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Gerónimo D, López AM. “Completing the System,” in Vision-based Pedestrian Protection Systems for Intelligent Vehicles SpringerBriefs in Computer Science., ed. A. M. López (New York, NY: Springer), 73–85.

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 for Young Minds.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Don’t Panic: The Northern Lights Won’t Be Turning Off Anytime Soon. IFLScience (2017) Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dont-panic-the-northern-lights-wont-be-turning-off-anytime-soon/ [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. Armored Systems Modernization: Program Inconsistent With Current Threat and Budgetary Constraints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1991).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ackerman GL. Information technology in the K–12 classroom: Curriculum and instruction reflecting emerging capacity and paradigms. (2009)

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

Johnson G. Dark Matter’s Deep Reach. New York Times (2015)D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers for Young Minds
Abbreviation	Front. Young Minds
ISSN (online)	2296-6846
Scope