How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychopathology citation style

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

Serhan, C. N. (2014). Pro-resolving lipid mediators are leads for resolution physiology. Nature 510, 92–101.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helbing, D., and Pournaras, E. (2015). Society: Build digital democracy. Nature 527, 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahl, C. D., Chen, C.-C., and Rasch, M. J. (2014). Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Sci. Rep. 4, 6654.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chan, R. C., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T. F., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A. E., et al. (2003). Chromosome cohesion is regulated by a clock gene paralogue TIM-1. Nature 423, 1002–1009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Inness, P., and Dorling, S. (2012). Operational Weather Forecasting. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Walton-Roberts, M., and Hennebry, J. eds. (2014). Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonesso, S., Comacchio, A., and Pizzi, C. (2014). “Open Innovation at Project Level: Key Issues and Future Research Agenda,” in Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation, eds. S. Bonesso, A. Comacchio, and C. Pizzi (London: Springer), 85–95.

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 Psychopathology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Tiny Beating Hearts Grown In The Lab. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tiny-beating-hearts-grown-lab/ (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 (1991). Direct Student Loans Could Save Money and Simplify Program 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

Hawkins, A. J. (2013). Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing. 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1998). The Mysterious Tattoo Hoax. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Serhan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Serhan, 2014; Helbing and Pournaras, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Helbing and Pournaras, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al., 2003)

About the journal

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