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

Friedman, M. (2009). Paleontology. Emerging onto a tangled bank. Science 324, 341–342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman, J., and Jing, J. (2002). China and AIDS--the time to act is now. Science 296, 2339–2340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saper, C. B., Scammell, T. E., and Lu, J. (2005). Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms. Nature 437, 1257–1263.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Khan, A. A., Bose, C., Yam, L. S., Soloski, M. J., and Rupp, F. (2001). Physiological regulation of the immunological synapse by agrin. Science 292, 1681–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenzel, J. (2010). CIO Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Basu, S., Pautasso, C., Zhang, L., and Fu, X. eds. (2013). Service-Oriented Computing: 11th International Conference, ICSOC 2013, Berlin, Germany, December 2-5, 2013, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherer, L., and Rossi, J. J. (2005). “Cancer Therapeutic Applications of Ribozymes and RNAi,” in Cancer Gene Therapy, eds. D. T. Curiel and J. T. Douglas (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 51–63.

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

Carpineti, A. (2017). A Climate Change Study Just Got Canceled Due To Climate Change. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-study-just-got-canceled-due-to-climate-change/ (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 (1976). Managers Need To Provide Better Protection for Federal Automatic Data Processing Facilities. 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

Murray, T. M. (2008). A grounded theory of U.S. Army installation realignment and closure leadership characteristics. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Dynarski, S. (2015). Why Small Student Debt Can Mean Big Problems. 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 (Friedman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kaufman and Jing, 2002; Friedman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kaufman and Jing, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Khan et al., 2001)

About the journal

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