How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cultural Psychology citation style

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

Richman, D. D. (2001). HIV chemotherapy. Nature 410, 995–1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goedert, M., and Cheng, Y. (2015). Parkinson’s disease: Crystals of a toxic core. Nature 525, 458–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marte, B., Eccleston, A., and Nath, D. (2008). Molecular cancer diagnostics. Nature 452, 547.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stone, M. B., Bernstein, D. P., Barry, R., Pelc, M. D., Tsui, Y.-K., and Schiffer, P. (2004). Stress propagation: getting to the bottom of a granular medium. Nature 427, 503–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., and Broniatowski, M. (2017). Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rebstock, M. (2008). Ontologies-Based Business Integration., eds. J. Fengel and H. Paulheim. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goldscheider, N. (2015). “Overview of Methods Applied in Karst Hydrogeology,” in Karst Aquifers—Characterization and Engineering, ed. Z. Stevanović (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 127–145.

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 Cultural Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Two New Horned Dinosaur Discoveries Reveal A Striking Evolutionary Divide. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-new-horned-dinosaur-discoveries-reveal-striking-evolutionary-divide/ (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 (1989). Port Development: Sponsors Have Not Used User Fee Financing to Date. 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

Villagomez, G. C. (2017). Helping Foster Parents and Kinship Caregivers Support High School Graduation for Children in Their Care: A Self-Instructional Workbook. 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

Bromwich, J. E. (2017). Real-Life Harvey and Irma Marvel at the Hurricanes. 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 (Richman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Richman, 2001; Goedert and Cheng, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goedert and Cheng, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Stone et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cultural Psychology
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology