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

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

Nowak, M. A. (2004). Prisoners of the dilemma. Nature 427, 491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gani, R., and Leach, S. (2001). Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations. Nature 414, 748–751.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kildishev, A. V., Boltasseva, A., and Shalaev, V. M. (2013). Planar photonics with metasurfaces. Science 339, 1232009.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Autumn, K., Liang, Y. A., Hsieh, S. T., Zesch, W., Chan, W. P., Kenny, T. W., et al. (2000). Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair. Nature 405, 681–685.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castañeda, L. B., Arunachalam, V., and Dharmaraja, S. (2012). Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wadkar, S. (2014). Pro Apache Hadoop., Second Edition, ed. M. Siddalingaiah. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

De Leenheer, P., and Mens, T. (2008). “Using Graph Transformation to Support Collaborative Ontology Evolution,” in Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance: Third International Symposium, AGTIVE 2007, Kassel, Germany, October 10-12, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, eds. A. Schürr, M. Nagl, and A. Zündorf (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 44–58.

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 Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). White Dwarf Stars Eat Their Planets. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarf-stars-eat-their-planets/ (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). FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Project Is Now Ready to Proceed. 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

McCarthy, B. A. (2010). Mentoring’s critical components: Four traditional teachers’, four alternate -route teachers’, and four mentors’ perspectives. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Southall, A. (2016). 2 Charged With Murder After a Buried Body Is Found in New Jersey. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowak, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gani and Leach, 2001; Nowak, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gani and Leach, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Autumn et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health