How to format your references using the Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology citation style

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

Forde, A. (2005). The class of 2005. Norway: a neuroscientist making connections. Science 310, 521.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez, P., and Treacy, M. M. J. (2013). Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature 503, E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bell, E., Rowen, L., and Hood, L. (2000). Publication rights for sequence data producers. Science 290, 1696b–8b.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ule, J., Jensen, K. B., Ruggiu, M., Mele, A., Ule, A., and Darnell, R. B. (2003). CLIP identifies Nova-regulated RNA networks in the brain. Science 302, 1212–1215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser, C. M., and Kochard, L. E. (2010). Top Hedge Fund Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vries, M. F. R. K. de, Korotov, K., Florent-Treacy, E., and Rook, C. eds. (2016). Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders., 2nd edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Nuutila, E., Törmä, S., Kinnunen, P., and Malmi, L. (2008). “Learning Programming with the PBL Method — Experiences on PBL Cases and Tutoring,” in Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations, eds. J. Bennedsen, M. E. Caspersen, and M. Kölling (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 47–67.

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 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Scientists Fed Volunteers 6,000 Calories For Science. IFLScience.

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 (2002). Higher Education: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Reporting on These Activities Could Be Enhanced. 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

Larson, S. E. (2014). A case of rational irrationality: Evidence of expressive interest bias in state e-commerce sales and use tax legislation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Wagner, J. (2016). Beyond the Stats, a Met Admired. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forde, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Forde, 2005; Rez and Treacy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rez and Treacy, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ule et al., 2003)

About the journal

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