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

Zwane, A. P. (2012). Economics. Implications of scarcity. Science 338, 617–618.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bao, J., and Bawendi, M. G. (2015). A colloidal quantum dot spectrometer. Nature 523, 67–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue, H.-J., Li, W.-Z., and Yang, X.-K. (2014). Assortative mating between two sympatric closely-related specialists: inferred from molecular phylogenetic analysis and behavioral data. Sci. Rep. 4, 5436.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, P., Lee, D.-J., Chan, C., Chen, S.-W., Ch’en, I., and Jamora, C. (2009). Dynamic expression of epidermal caspase 8 simulates a wound healing response. Nature 458, 519–523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lawless, H. T. (2013). Quantitative Sensory Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Pellens, R., and Grandcolas, P. eds. (2016). Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics: Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sroufe, R. (2013). “Quality Assurance and Consumer Electronics Recycling,” in Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains, ed. Y. Nikolaidis (London: Springer), 73–94.

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

Hamilton, K. (2015). Man Sings ‘If Only I Had A Brain’ During MRI. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-man-sings-wizard-oz-song-during-super-fast-mri/ (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 (1982). Ocean Mining Technology Transfer (Best available copy). 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

Rodriguez, F. (2010). Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program. 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

Saslow, L. (2007). The Week; Lowe’s Completes Deal To Buy Catering Hall. 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 (Zwane, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Zwane, 2012; Bao and Bawendi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bao and Bawendi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2009)

About the journal

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