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

Nittler, L. R. (2010). Planetary science. Cometary dust in the laboratory. Science 328, 698–699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, G. M., and Oshima, J. (2000). Lessons from human progeroid syndromes. Nature 408, 263–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Urban, F. E., Cole, J. E., and Overpeck, J. T. (2000). Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record. Nature 407, 989–993.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang, Z.-Y., Kong, W.-P., Huang, Y., Roberts, A., Murphy, B. R., Subbarao, K., et al. (2004). A DNA vaccine induces SARS coronavirus neutralization and protective immunity in mice. Nature 428, 561–564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernatz, R. A. (2010). Fourier Series and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gao, Z.-K. (2014). Nonlinear Analysis of Gas-Water/Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow in Complex Networks., eds. N.-D. Jin and W.-X. Wang. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, G. W., De Lorenzi, F., Rietjens, M., Manconi, A., Hoch, D., Benditte-Klepetko, H., et al. (2010). “OPS and Mastectomy,” in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: A Guide to Clinical Practice, eds. F. Fitzal and P. Schrenk (Vienna: Springer), 133–192.

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

Andrew, E. (2016). What Are Delusions – And How Best Can We Treat Them? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-are-delusions-and-how-best-can-we-treat-them/ (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 (1998). National Airspace System: FAA Has Implemented Some Free Flight Initiatives, but Challenges Remain. 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

Albers, C. (2015). One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Herrman, J. (2016). Mayer’s Media Problem at Yahoo Is Now Verizon’s. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nittler, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Martin and Oshima, 2000; Nittler, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Oshima, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2004)

About the journal

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