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

Alvarez, M. (2007). System-ready scientists. Nature 447, 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Talapin, D. V., and Murray, C. B. (2005). PbSe nanocrystal solids for n- and p-channel thin film field-effect transistors. Science 310, 86–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Granot, J., Nakar, E., and Piran, T. (2003). Astrophysics: refreshed shocks from a gamma-ray burst. Nature 426, 138–139.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ke, Y., Lindsay, S., Chang, Y., Liu, Y., and Yan, H. (2008). Self-assembled water-soluble nucleic acid probe tiles for label-free RNA hybridization assays. Science 319, 180–183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg, L. M. (2010). Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Jaiwal, P. K., Singh, R. P., and Dhankher, O. P. eds. (2015). Genetic Manipulation in Plants for Mitigation of Climate Change. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Lieten, G. K., and Strehl, T. (2015). “Street Child Interventions and Policies,” in Child Street Life: An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru, ed. T. Strehl (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–53.

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

Carpineti, A. (2015). Chicken Study Shows That Evolution Can Happen Quickly. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chicken-study-shows-evolution-can-happens-quickly/ (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 (1976). Procedures and Policies of the Energy Research and Development Administration. 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

Zhang, Y. (2013). Crossroads A World War II story. 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

Sisario, B. (2017). Milestone for BMI: More Than $1 Billion in Music Royalties. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Talapin and Murray, 2005; Alvarez, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Talapin and Murray, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ke 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