How to format your references using the Frontiers in Forensic Psychiatry citation style

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

Triendl, R. (2002). Chance to make a difference in Japan. Nature 417, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abbott, A., and Schiermeier, Q. (2000). Deep roots of Nazi science revealed. Nature 407, 823–824.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks, C. L., 3rd, Onuchic, J. N., and Wales, D. J. (2001). Statistical thermodynamics. Taking a walk on a landscape. Science 293, 612–613.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rowe, T., Ketcham, R. A., Denison, C., Colbert, M., Xu, X., and Currie, P. J. (2001). Forensic palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor forgery. Nature 410, 539–540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mory, M. (2013). Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dastani, M., Fallah Seghrouchni, A. E., Leite, J., and Torroni, P. eds. (2008). Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, LADS 2007, Durham, UK, September 4-6, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Z.-G. (2015). “Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Materials,” in Organic Optoelectronic Materials, ed. Y. Li (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 165–194.

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 Forensic Psychiatry.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). THC Could Remove Alzheimer’s Plaques From The Brain. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/thc-may-weapon-against-alzheimer-s/ (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 (2007). Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Taking Steps to Better Target Its Oversight, but Assessment of Results Is Needed to Determine Impact. 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

Cheung, M. (2010). An integrated change model in project management. 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

Harris, E. A. (2014). Walking Away, Quietly. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott and Schiermeier, 2000; Triendl, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Abbott and Schiermeier, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Rowe et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Forensic Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health