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

Mackay, A. L. (2001). Character-building. Nature 410, 19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde, P. S., and Knudsen, E. I. (2002). The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl’s auditory space map. Nature 415, 73–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas, R. E., Antony, C., and Nurse, P. (2005). The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science 309, 297–300.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He, L., Xue, L., Xu, J., McNeil, B. D., Bai, L., Melicoff, E., et al. (2009). Compound vesicle fusion increases quantal size and potentiates synaptic transmission. Nature 459, 93–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Passarelli, D. (2012). Trading Options Greeks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Saranto, K., Castrén, M., Kuusela, T., Hyrynsalmi, S., and Ojala, S. eds. (2014). Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Issar, G., and Navon, L. R. (2016). “Decision Support Systems (DSS),” in Operational Excellence: A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application, ed. L. R. Navon (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 17–20.

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. (2015). New Rules Say Unvaccinated Australian Kids Can’t Attend Kindergarten. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-childcare-or-kindergarten-unvaccinated-australian-kids/ (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 (2013). FAA Facilities: Improved Condition Assessment Methods Could Better Inform Maintenance Decisions and Capital- Planning Efforts. 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

Maas, C. C. (2014). Emergency department utilization patterns in patients with diabetes. 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

Mele, C. (2017). Firearms and Drivers, A Lethal Combination. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackay, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mackay, 2001; Hyde and Knudsen, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hyde and Knudsen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2009)

About the journal

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