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

Bonan, G. B. (2008). Forests and climate change: forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits of forests. Science 320, 1444–1449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ungar, P. S., and Sponheimer, M. (2011). The diets of early hominins. Science 334, 190–193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cottam, J., Paerels, F., and Mendez, M. (2002). Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines in the X-ray burst spectra of a neutron star. Nature 420, 51–54.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Merrell, D. S., Butler, S. M., Qadri, F., Dolganov, N. A., Alam, A., Cohen, M. B., et al. (2002). Host-induced epidemic spread of the cholera bacterium. Nature 417, 642–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardner, S., and Birley, S. (2010). Blogging for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Belli, R. F. ed. (2012). True and False Recovered Memories: Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate., 1st Edn. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Endres, D., Fuest, C., and Spengel, C. (2010). “Tax Planning Strategies,” in Company Taxation in the Asia-Pacific Region, India, and Russia, eds. D. Endres, C. Fuest, and C. Spengel (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 55–62.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). One Year On From New Horizons, We Spoke To The Man Behind The Daring Mission To Pluto. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-year-on-from-new-horizons-we-spoke-to-the-man-behind-the-daring-mission-to-pluto/ (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 (2016). Financial Management Systems: HUD Needs to Address Management and Governance Weaknesses That Jeopardize Its Modernization Efforts. 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

Moris, F. A. (2015). International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries. 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

Leland, W. by J. (2017). Silence Is Golden. New York Times, MB7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonan, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bonan, 2008; Ungar and Sponheimer, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ungar and Sponheimer, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Merrell et al., 2002)

About the journal

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