How to format your references using the Frontiers in Impulsivity, Compulsivity and Behavioral Dyscontrol citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Impulsivity, Compulsivity and Behavioral Dyscontrol. 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

Funder, J. W. (2011). Medicine. The genetics of primary aldosteronism. Science 331, 685–686.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmiedmayer, J., and Abele, H. (2015). ASTROPHYSICS. Probing the dark side. Science 349, 786–787.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lan, R., Irvine, J. T. S., and Tao, S. (2013). Synthesis of ammonia directly from air and water at ambient temperature and pressure. Sci. Rep. 3, 1145.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shlyk-Kerner, O., Samish, I., Kaftan, D., Holland, N., Sai, P. S. M., Kless, H., et al. (2006). Protein flexibility acclimatizes photosynthetic energy conversion to the ambient temperature. Nature 442, 827–830.

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., Kasper, T., and Melkko, S. (2005). 3G Marketing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Renaud, F. G., Sudmeier-Rieux, K., Estrella, M., and Nehren, U. eds. (2016). Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanley, K. O., and Lehman, J. (2015). “The False Compass,” in Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, ed. J. Lehman (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 29–38.

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 Impulsivity, Compulsivity and Behavioral Dyscontrol.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015). Watch Food Being Digested In This Fascinating And Gross Video. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/watch-food-being-digested/ (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 (2006). Information Technology: Improvements Needed to More Accurately Identify and Better Oversee Risky Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars. 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

Moble, B. (2010). Fundamental understanding of the cycloidal-rotor concept for micro air vehicle applications. 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Imperfections. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Funder, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Funder, 2011; Schmiedmayer and Abele, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schmiedmayer and Abele, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Shlyk-Kerner et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Impulsivity, Compulsivity and Behavioral Dyscontrol
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health