How to format your references using the Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement citation style

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

Newman, A. V. (2011). Hidden depths. Nature 474, 441–443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mishima, O., and Suzuki, Y. (2002). Propagation of the polyamorphic transition of ice and the liquid-liquid critical point. Nature 419, 599–603.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xia, K., Vanner, M. R., and Twamley, J. (2014). An opto-magneto-mechanical quantum interface between distant superconducting qubits. Sci. Rep. 4, 5571.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lippman, A., Newman, S. A., Testa, G., and Harris, J. (2005). The Ethics of Deriving Gametes from ES Cells. Science 307, 515c–517c.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunlop, J., Girma, D., and Irvine, J. (2013). Digital Mobile Communications and the Tetra System. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schuetze, O., Coello Coello, C. A., Tantar, A.-A., Tantar, E., Bouvry, P., Moral, P. D., et al. eds. (2014). EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation III. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lowe, E. K., Cuomo, C., and Arnone, M. I. (2016). “A Differential Transcriptomic Approach to Compare Target Genes of Homologous Transcription Factors in Echinoderm Species,” in Dynamics of Mathematical Models in Biology: Bringing Mathematics to Life, eds. A. Rogato, V. Zazzu, and M. Guarracino (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 55–63.

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 Quantitative Psychology and Measurement.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Birds Use Vortices For Elegant Flight. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-use-vortices-elegant-flight/ (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 (1979). Cost/Benefit Analysis--A Legislative Branch Viewpoint. 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

Moton, J. M. (2012). Investigation of low temperature solid oxide fuel cells for air-independent UUV applications. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kanter, J. (2017). Europe Moves to Collect Taxes From Tech Giants. 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 (Newman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mishima and Suzuki, 2002; Newman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mishima and Suzuki, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lippman et al., 2005)

About the journal

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