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

Tatar, M. (2005). Comment on “Long-lived Drosophila with overexpressed dFOXO in adult fat body.” Science 307, 675; author reply 675.

A journal article with 2 authors

del Giorgio, P. A., and Duarte, C. M. (2002). Respiration in the open ocean. Nature 420, 379–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huynh, W. U., Dittmer, J. J., and Alivisatos, A. P. (2002). Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells. Science 295, 2425–2427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yun, B.-W., Feechan, A., Yin, M., Saidi, N. B. B., Le Bihan, T., Yu, M., et al. (2011). S-nitrosylation of NADPH oxidase regulates cell death in plant immunity. Nature 478, 264–268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson, B., and Dorsey, J. (2008). Medical Terminology for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Jia, L., Liu, Z., Qin, Y., Ding, R., and Diao, L. eds. (2016). Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation: Electrical Traction. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chizzolini, B. (2008). “National and Regional Econometric Models,” in Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe: European Competiveness and Global Strategies Advances in Spatial Science., eds. R. Camagni, B. Chizzolini, and U. Fratesi (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 69–82.

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

Carpineti, C. (2017). The Terrifying Moment Paddle Boarders Realized They Were Surrounded By 15 Great White Sharks. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-terrifying-moment-paddle-boarders-realized-they-were-surrounded-by-15-great-white-sharks/ [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 (1992). Education Issues. 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

Tate, K. J. (2014). Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study.

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. (2006). The Power of the Adolescent Pen. New York Times, 14LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tatar, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (del Giorgio and Duarte, 2002; Tatar, 2005).

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

Two authors: (del Giorgio and Duarte, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yun et al., 2011)

About the journal

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

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