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

Manuelidis, L. (2000). Penny wise, pound foolish-a retrospective. Science 290, 2257b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Altshuler, D., and Clark, A. G. (2005). Genetics. Harvesting medical information from the human family tree. Science 307, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brisbin, I. L., Jr, Austad, S., and Jacobson, S. K. (2000). Canine detectives: the nose knows-or does it? Science 290, 1093b.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mao, C., Solis, D. J., Reiss, B. D., Kottmann, S. T., Sweeney, R. Y., Hayhurst, A., et al. (2004). Virus-based toolkit for the directed synthesis of magnetic and semiconducting nanowires. Science 303, 213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bâzu, M., and Băjenescu, T. (2011). Failure Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cademartiri, F., Casolo, G., and Midiri, M. eds. (2012). Clinical Applications of Cardiac CT. Second Edition. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marinca, V., and Herisanu, N. (2011). “The Method of Multiple Scales,” in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering: Some Approximate Approaches, ed. N. Herisanu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 83–102.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). Yes, Wearing A Bike Helmet Really Does Reduce Your Risk Of Injury. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/yes-wearing-a-bike-helmet-really-does-reduce-your-risk-of-injury/ [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). Information Technology: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Needs to Establish Critical Investment Management Capabilities. 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

Andrews, A. (2013). Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal.

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

Leland, J. (2017). Life Among the Boldface Names. New York Times, MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manuelidis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Manuelidis, 2000; Altshuler and Clark, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Altshuler and Clark, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mao et al., 2004)

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

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