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

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

Corbyn, Z. (2011). Science education: Research on the reservation. Nature 471, 25–26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camerer, C. F., and Fehr, E. (2006). When does “economic man” dominate social behavior? Science 311, 47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frebel, A., Kirby, E. N., and Simon, J. D. (2010). Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor. Nature 464, 72–75.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Takasugi, N., Tomita, T., Hayashi, I., Tsuruoka, M., Niimura, M., Takahashi, Y., et al. (2003). The role of presenilin cofactors in the gamma-secretase complex. Nature 422, 438–441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen, T. T. (2006). m-Profits. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Andronikou, S. ed. (2012). See Right Through Me: An Imaging Anatomy Atlas., 2nd ed. 2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hernandez, A., Outbib, R., and Hissel, D. (2012). “Fault Diagnosis of PEM Fuel Cell,” in PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems: A Multidisciplinary Study of Modelling, Simulation, Fault Diagnosis and Advanced Control, eds. M. S. Basualdo, D. Feroldi, and R. Outbib (London: Springer), 151–183.

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 Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Does Global Warming Mean More Or Less Snow? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/does-global-warming-mean-more-or-less-snow/ (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 (2005). Space Shuttle: Actions Needed to Better Position NASA to Sustain Its Workforce Through Retirement. 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

Luce, G. R. (2015). British viola repertoire of the first half of the twentieth century. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, M. W., and Cooper, M. (2012). Recommendations for State and National Policy Makers. New York Times, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corbyn, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Camerer and Fehr, 2006; Corbyn, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Camerer and Fehr, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Takasugi et al., 2003)

About the journal

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