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

Gill, P. (2001). Atomic clocks. Raising the standards. Science 294, 1666–1668.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, A. C. M., and Cramer, P. (2011). Structural basis of RNA polymerase II backtracking, arrest and reactivation. Nature 471, 249–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Standen, E. M., Du, T. Y., and Larsson, H. C. E. (2014). Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods. Nature 513, 54–58.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Griffin, C. T., Srinivasan, Y., Zheng, Y. W., Huang, W., and Coughlin, S. R. (2001). A role for thrombin receptor signaling in endothelial cells during embryonic development. Science 293, 1666–1670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D., and Huon, J.-P. (2017). Secure Connected Objects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D’Alessio, S. ed. (2011). Inclusive Education in Italy: A Critical Analysis of the Policy of Integrazione Scolastica. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, X., Zhao, J., and Feng, Z. (2014). “Instantaneous Motion of a 2-RCR Mechanism with Variable Mobility,” in Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 7th International Conference, ICIRA 2014, Guangzhou, China, December 17-20, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, eds. X. Zhang, H. Liu, Z. Chen, and N. Wang (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 44–55.

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

Fang, J. (2014). Pythons know their way home. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pythons-know-their-way-home/ (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 (2009). Information Technology: Actions Needed to Fully Establish Program Management Capability for VA’s Financial and Logistics Initiative. 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

Mayberry, D. S. (2017). Total Relaxation Center, LLC. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard, M. (2010). Think Green and Young. New York Times, E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gill, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gill, 2001; Cheung and Cramer, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cheung and Cramer, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Griffin et al., 2001)

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