How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis citation style

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

DeLisi, C. (2008). Meetings that changed the world: Santa Fe 1986: Human genome baby-steps. Nature 455, 876–877.

A journal article with 2 authors

y Arcas, B. A., and Fairhall, A. (2001). Archaeology of type. Nature 411, 997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloss, T. A., Witze, E. S., and Rothman, J. H. (2003). Suppression of CED-3-independent apoptosis by mitochondrial betaNAC in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 424, 1066–1071.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Min, J., Vonesch, C., Kirshner, H., Carlini, L., Olivier, N., Holden, S., et al. (2014). FALCON: fast and unbiased reconstruction of high-density super-resolution microscopy data. Sci. Rep. 4, 4577.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leach, M., Drummond, M., and Doig, A. (2013). Practical Flow Cytometry in Haematology Diagnosis. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Kundisch, D., Veit, D. J., Weitzel, T., and Weinhardt, C. eds. (2009). Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 4th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2008, Paris, France, December 13, 2008. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhaduri, P. P., Hegde, P., Satz, H., and Tribedy, P. (2010). “An Introduction to the Spectral Analysis of the QGP,” in The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures, eds. S. Sarkar, H. Satz, and B. Sinha (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 179–197.

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 Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Songbirds Share Our Musical Scales. IFLScience.

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 (1999). Intercollegiate Athletics: Comparison of Selected Characteristics for Men’s and Women’s Programs. 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

Ademiluyi, C. A. (2010). Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate. 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). Justices Uphold a Death Sentence Twice Overturned. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeLisi, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (y Arcas and Fairhall, 2001; DeLisi, 2008).

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

Two authors: (y Arcas and Fairhall, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Min et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology