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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Hyman, S. (2014). Mental health: depression needs large human-genetics studies. Nature 515, 189–191.
A journal article with 2 authors
Veiseh, O., and Langer, R. (2015). Diabetes: A smart insulin patch. Nature 524, 39–40.
A journal article with 3 authors
Mills, C. E., Robins, J. M., and Lipsitch, M. (2004). Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature 432, 904–906.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Hamad, I., Delaporte, E., Raoult, D., and Bittar, F. (2014). Detection of termites and other insects consumed by African great apes using molecular fecal analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Alberty, R. A. (2011). Enzyme Kinetics: Rapid-Equilibrium Enzyme Kinetics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Ley, K. ed. (2007). Adhesion Molecules: Function and Inhibition. Basel: Birkhäuser.
A chapter in an edited book
Lehmann, F.-O. (2012). “Wake Structure and Vortex Development in Flight of Fruit Flies Using High-Speed Particle Image Velocimetry,” in Nature-Inspired Fluid Mechanics: Results of the DFG Priority Programme 1207 ”Nature-inspired Fluid Mechanics” 2006-2012, eds. C. Tropea and H. Bleckmann (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 65–79.

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
Andrew, D. (2017). Here’s What To Eat To Recover From An Injury. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-what-to-eat-to-recover-from-an-injury/ (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 (1989). Health Care: Children’s Medical Services Programs in 10 States. 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
Hill, B. (2010). HIV-specific CD8 T-cell clonality, publicity and function under different vaccine modalities. 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
McKINLEY, J. C., Jr (2016). Hip-Hop Artist, Accused of Being a Gang Leader, Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Weapons Charges. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hyman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hyman, 2014; Veiseh and Langer, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Veiseh and Langer, 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Hamad et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleFrontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
AbbreviationFront. Psychol.
ISSN (online)1664-1078
ScopeGeneral Psychology

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