How to format your references using the Frontiers in Affective Disorders and Psychosomatic Research citation style

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

Norman, M. (2004). Physics. Have cuprates earned their stripes? Science 303, 1985–1986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, S. R., and Stuart, G. J. (2002). Dependence of EPSP efficacy on synapse location in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Science 295, 1907–1910.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, D., Song, C., and Barabási, A.-L. (2013). Quantifying long-term scientific impact. Science 342, 127–132.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Geissler, P. L., Dellago, C., Chandler, D., Hutter, J., and Parrinello, M. (2001). Autoionization in liquid water. Science 291, 2121–2124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye, T. (2008). Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Negenborn, R. R., Lukszo, Z., and Hellendoorn, H. eds. (2010). Intelligent Infrastructures. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Messner, W. (2012). “Strategically Organising for Innovation in Global Sourcing,” in Globalization of Professional Services: Innovative Strategies, Successful Processes, Inspired Talent Management, and First-Hand Experiences, eds. U. Bäumer, P. Kreutter, and W. Messner (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 41–51.

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 Affective Disorders and Psychosomatic Research.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Tracking Tiger Sharks Reveals Bird-Like Migration. IFLScience.

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 (1995). National Airspace System: Assessment of FAA’s Efforts to Augment the Global Positioning System. 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

Karas, L. L. (2017). Information systems and technology leaders in merger and acquisition integrations. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Schmidt, M. S. (2017). Red Sox Used Apple Watch to Help Steal Signs, Inquiry Finds. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Williams and Stuart, 2002; Norman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Stuart, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Geissler et al., 2001)

About the journal

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