How to format your references using the Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry. 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

Evans, R. L. (2008). Geochemistry. Carbon in charge. Science 322, 1338–1340.

A journal article with 2 authors

Panchanathan, K., and Boyd, R. (2004). Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature 432, 499–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilestro, G. F., Tononi, G., and Cirelli, C. (2009). Widespread changes in synaptic markers as a function of sleep and wakefulness in Drosophila. Science 324, 109–112.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lv, C., Krishnaraju, D., Konjevod, G., Yu, H., and Jiang, H. (2014). Origami based mechanical metamaterials. Sci. Rep. 4, 5979.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sugirtharajah, R. S. (2011). Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Shan, M.-C., Dayal, U., and Hsu, M. eds. (2005). Technologies for E-Services: 5th International Workshop, TES 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Petkov, P. (2006). “Electrode-Limited Currents in Thin Ternary Chalcogenide Films,” in Functional Properties of Nanostructured Materials, eds. R. Kassing, P. Petkov, W. Kulisch, and C. Popov (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 57–72.

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 Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016). “I Just Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”: How To Eradicate Earworms. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/i-just-can-t-get-you-out-my-head-how-eradicate-earworms/ (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 (1993). Comments on CRS Direct Loan Report. 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

Voss, J. (2013). Supported housing program for severely mentally ill homeless individuals: A grant proposal. 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

Chapman, M. M. (2010). Detroit Reins In an Annual Halloween Revelry. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Panchanathan and Boyd, 2004; Evans, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Panchanathan and Boyd, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lv et al., 2014)

About the journal

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