How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings. 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

Jenkins, A. (2004). Graduate journal: one of those days. Nature 427, 870.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carr, M. H., and Garvin, J. (2001). Mars exploration. Nature 412, 250–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Xie, Z., and Zhao, J. (2000). A 3,000-year record of penguin populations. Nature 407, 858.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moffitt, J. R., Bambah-Mukku, D., Eichhorn, S. W., Vaughn, E., Shekhar, K., Perez, J. D., et al. (2018). Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region. Science 362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waine, C. (2008). Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Nocedal, J. (2006). Numerical Optimization., Second Edition, ed. S. J. Wright. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dai, Y. (2013). “Outlook for Energy Supply and Demand in China,” in Green Low-Carbon Development in China, eds. J. Xue, Z. Zhao, Y. Dai, and B. Wang (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 81–102.

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 Psychology for Clinical Settings.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). 61-Year-Old Former Boxer Has A Run In With A Black Bear. 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 (2004). Special Education: Improved Timeliness and Better Use of Enforcement Actions Could Strengthen Education’s Monitoring System. 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

Davidson, W. B. (2010). High school athletics and the “whole adolescent”: A case study of three urban high schools. 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

Chira, S. (2015). One Brew Does Not Fit All. New York Times, D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jenkins, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Carr and Garvin, 2001; Jenkins, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Carr and Garvin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Moffitt et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology