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

Stearns, T. (2015). Cell biology. Centrioles, in absentia. Science 348, 1091–1092.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merad, M., and Salmon, H. (2015). Cancer: A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity. Nature 523, 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiong, Q., Znamenskiy, P., and Zador, A. M. (2015). Selective corticostriatal plasticity during acquisition of an auditory discrimination task. Nature 521, 348–351.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Whittaker, J. M., Müller, R. D., Roest, W. R., Wessel, P., and Smith, W. H. F. (2008). How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness. Nature 456, 938–941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanchez, A., and Carro, B. (2017). Digital Services in the 21st Century. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dawson, D. A. (2014). Spatial Fleming-Viot Models with Selection and Mutation., ed. A. Greven. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bogdanov, D., Talviste, R., and Willemson, J. (2012). “Deploying Secure Multi-Party Computation for Financial Data Analysis,” in Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 16th International Conference, FC 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, Februray 27-March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, ed. A. D. Keromytis (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 57–64.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). ‘Ardi’ skull shows link to humans, not modern apes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/‘ardi’-skull-shows-link-humans-not-modern-apes/ (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 (1995). International Aviation: DOT Needs Better Data for Monitoring and Decisionmaking. 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

Brown, J. R. (2010). Trajectories of parents’ experiences in discovering, reporting, and living with the aftermath of middle school bullying. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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. (2007). Nassau County Buys Farm Development Rights. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stearns, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Merad and Salmon, 2015; Stearns, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Merad and Salmon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Whittaker et al., 2008)

About the journal

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