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

Sachs J. Recession Watch: Boost the developing world. Nature (2009) 457:958.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hol FJH, Dekker C. Zooming in to see the bigger picture: microfluidic and nanofabrication tools to study bacteria. Science (2014) 346:1251821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller J, Weiske A, Berger F. Thunderbolt in biogeochemistry: galvanic effects of lightning as another source for metal remobilization. Sci Rep (2013) 3:3122.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Maier E, Zhang X, Abelmann A, Gersonde R, Mulitza S, Werner M, Méheust M, Ren J, Chapligin B, Meyer H, et al. North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation. Nature (2018) 559:241–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morri G, Mazza A. Property Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2014).

An edited book

Ahmad MS. Postharvest Quality Assurance of Fruits: Practical Approaches for Developing Countries. 1st ed. 2015. , ed. M. W. Siddiqui Cham: Springer International Publishing (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Persinger C. “Challenges of Portfolio Management in Pharmaceutical Development,” in Optimization of Pharmaceutical R&D Programs and Portfolios: Design and Investment Strategy, ed. Z. Antonijevic (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 71–80.

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

Andrew E. How Much Lembas Would You Need To Get To Mordor? IFLScience (2015)

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. Highway Technology: The Structure for Conducting Highway Pavement Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1987).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belic B. Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian. (2005)

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Seem to Support How State Selects Judges. New York Times (2007)B3.

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
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