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

Shi, S. H. (2001). Amersham Biosciences & Science Prize. AMPA receptor dynamics and synaptic plasticity. Science 294, 1851–1852.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, T. M., and Cleveland, D. W. (2005). Medicine. Treating neurodegenerative diseases with antibiotics. Science 307, 361–362.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rubinstein, S. M., Cohen, G., and Fineberg, J. (2004). Detachment fronts and the onset of dynamic friction. Nature 430, 1005–1009.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wertz, I. E., Kusam, S., Lam, C., Okamoto, T., Sandoval, W., Anderson, D. J., et al. (2011). Sensitivity to antitubulin chemotherapeutics is regulated by MCL1 and FBW7. Nature 471, 110–114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cann, A. J. (2004). Mathe für Biologen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Aranda-Corral, G. A., Calmet, J., and Martín-Mateos, F. J. eds. (2014). Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation: 12th International Conference, AISC 2014, Seville, Spain, December 11-13, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Leung, C. K.-S., and MacKinnon, R. K. (2015). “Balancing Tree Size and Accuracy in Fast Mining of Uncertain Frequent Patterns,” in Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, eds. S. Madria and T. Hara (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 57–69.

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. (2015). Chimps “Talk” to Each Other About Their Favorite Fruit Trees. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-talk-each-other-about-fruits-and-trees/ (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 (2006). Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. 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

Walker, D. (2017). University Research Adminstrators’ Perception of Incivility and the Relationship to Employee Engagement. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Bray, C., and Kanter, J. (2017). E.U. Proposal May Shrink London’s Financial Footprint. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shi, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Shi, 2001; Miller and Cleveland, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Cleveland, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wertz et al., 2011)

About the journal

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