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

Dermitzakis, E. T. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Genome literacy. Science 331, 689–690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde, P. S., and Knudsen, E. I. (2002). The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl’s auditory space map. Nature 415, 73–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Toulokhonov, I., Artsimovitch, I., and Landick, R. (2001). Allosteric control of RNA polymerase by a site that contacts nascent RNA hairpins. Science 292, 730–733.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Janzen, V., Forkert, R., Fleming, H. E., Saito, Y., Waring, M. T., Dombkowski, D. M., et al. (2006). Stem-cell ageing modified by the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4a. Nature 443, 421–426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros, N., Kanaka-Gantenbein, C., Liatis, S., Makrilakis, K., and Tentolouris, N. (2011). Diabetic Emergencies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Menéndez, A. J., and Eriksen, E. O. eds. (2006). Arguing Fundamental Rights. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cristini, C., Cesa-Bianchi, M., Cesa-Bianchi, G., and Porro, A. (2011). “Creatività nell’infanzia,” in L’ultima creatività: Luci nella vecchiaia, eds. M. Cesa-Bianchi, G. Cesa-Bianchi, and A. Porro (Milano: Springer), 61–77.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Should Your Car Be Programmed To Kill You? 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 (2007). Airport Finance: Preliminary Analysis Indicates Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program May Not Resolve Funding Needs for Smaller Airports. 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

Vincent, C. (2010). Viewing Dissociative Identity Disorder through a Jungian lens. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Gluck, J. P. (2016). Regretting My Animal Research. New York Times, SR7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dermitzakis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hyde and Knudsen, 2002; Dermitzakis, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hyde and Knudsen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Janzen et al., 2006)

About the journal

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