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

Xu, X. (2013). Enhanced trion emission from colloidal quantum dots with photonic crystals by two-photon excitation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt, A., and Deisseroth, K. (2015). OPTOGENETICS. Expanding the optogenetics toolkit. Science 349, 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biteau, B., Labarre, J., and Toledano, M. B. (2003). ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine-sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin. Nature 425, 980–984.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wilke, C. O., Wang, J. L., Ofria, C., Lenski, R. E., and Adami, C. (2001). Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest. Nature 412, 331–333.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohan, N. (2014). Advanced Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tomás-Rodríguez, M. (2010). Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: with Applications in Control and Optimization. , ed. S. P. Banks London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagy, G. (2005). “Interactive, Mobile, Distributed Pattern Recognition,” in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. F. Roli and S. Vitulano (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 37–49.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). There Might Be Another “Stonehenge” In The Amazon. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/there-might-be-another-stonehenge-in-the-amazon/ [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 (1991). Transportation Infrastructure: Department of Transportation Highway and Mass Transit Program Reauthorization Proposals. 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

Jurica, M. L. (2012). Napping in the workplace as an invisible stigma: The moderating roles of raters’ nap habit, work ethic, and organizational policy.

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. (2009). Sorting Out their Goals, and Options. New York Times, WE7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Xu, 2013; Berndt and Deisseroth, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Berndt and Deisseroth, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wilke et al., 2001)

About the journal

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

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