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

de Boer, Y. (2010). Copenhagen shows we need caution in Cancún. Nature 468, 477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman, J. S., and Walter, M. A. (2002). Biomedicine. Under pressure. Science 295, 983–984.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrlich, P. R., Kareiva, P. M., and Daily, G. C. (2012). Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization. Nature 486, 68–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cordes, K. R., Sheehy, N. T., White, M. P., Berry, E. C., Morton, S. U., Muth, A. N., et al. (2009). miR-145 and miR-143 regulate smooth muscle cell fate and plasticity. Nature 460, 705–710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley, R. H. V., and Tinker, P. B. (2015). The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Buchholz, B. M. (2014). Smart Grids – Fundamentals and Technologies in Electricity Networks., ed. Z. Styczynski. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aronoff, C. E., McClure, S. L., and Ward, J. L. (2011). “Developing Effective Successors,” in Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness, eds. S. L. McClure and J. L. Ward (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 33–50.

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

Fang, J. (2015). How Wingless Mantises Prevent Face-Planting When They Land. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-wingless-mantises-prevent-face-planting-when-they-land/ (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 (2015). Highlights of a Forum: Financial Literacy: The Role of the Workplace. 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

Coyle, M. (2017). Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015). The Amazin’ Mets’ Wives on the Brink in 1969. New York Times, C34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Boer, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman and Walter, 2002; de Boer, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Friedman and Walter, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cordes et al., 2009)

About the journal

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