How to format your references using the Frontiers in Addictive Disorders citation style

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

Chapman, T. (2004). Breathing life into chemistry. Nature 430, 948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knohl, A., and Veldkamp, E. (2011). Global change: indirect feedbacks to rising CO2. Nature 475, 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lynch, V. J., May, G., and Wagner, G. P. (2011). Regulatory evolution through divergence of a phosphoswitch in the transcription factor CEBPB. Nature 480, 383–386.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maeda, N., Chen, N., Tirrell, M., and Israelachvili, J. N. (2002). Adhesion and friction mechanisms of polymer-on-polymer surfaces. Science 297, 379–382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodda, H. J. E., and Little, M. A. (2015). Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Abraham, A., Grosan, C., and Ishibuchi, H. eds. (2007). Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Davidson, R. (2016). “Working-Class Women Activists: Citizenship at the Local Level,” in Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, eds. P. Ackers and A. J. Reid (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 93–120.

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 Addictive Disorders.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016). Huge New Study Reveals The Impact Of Spanking On Children. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/spanking-leads-angrier-and-more-defiant-children/ (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 (2007). Aviation Security: TSA’s Change to Its Prohibited Items List Has Not Resulted in Any Reported Security Incidents, but the Impact of the Change on Screening Operations Is Inconclusive. 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

Arzaga, C. B. (2012). Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Saslow, L. (2007). T’s Not Crossed in Community College Tuition. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2004; Knohl and Veldkamp, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Knohl and Veldkamp, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Maeda et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Addictive Disorders
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health