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

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

Andreae, M. O. (2007). Atmosphere. Aerosols before pollution. Science 315, 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Danielson, J. Å. H., and Frommer, W. B. (2013). Plant science. Jack of all trades, master of flowering. Science 339, 659–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Day, M., Langston, R., and Morris, R. G. M. (2003). Glutamate-receptor-mediated encoding and retrieval of paired-associate learning. Nature 424, 205–209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Poxleitner, M. K., Carpenter, M. L., Mancuso, J. J., Wang, C.-J. R., Dawson, S. C., and Cande, W. Z. (2008). Evidence for karyogamy and exchange of genetic material in the binucleate intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis. Science 319, 1530–1533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singer, B., and Fedorinchik, G. (2009). Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hackstein, J. H. P. ed. (2010). (Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, R., Dong, S., Wang, H., Zhang, M., Wang, S., and Li, D. (2013). “Perceptual Characteristic and Compression Research in 3D Audio Technology,” in From Sounds to Music and Emotions: 9th International Symposium, CMMR 2012, London, UK, June 19-22, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, eds. M. Aramaki, M. Barthet, R. Kronland-Martinet, and S. Ystad (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 82–98.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015). Four New Spider Species Found In Southern Africa. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-new-spider-species-found-southern-africa/ (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 (2016). Information Technology: Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census. 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

Chen, A. P. (2008). An efficient algorithm for calculating fluctuation field and simulating the thermal magnetic aftereffect. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Religious Separation. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andreae, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae, 2007; Danielson and Frommer, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Danielson and Frommer, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Poxleitner et al., 2008)

About the journal

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