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

Hedrick, P. W. (2004). Comment on “Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality.” Science 303, 957; author reply 957.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melbourne, T. I., and Webb, F. H. (2003). Geophysics. Slow but not quite silent. Science 300, 1886–1887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Waghmare, P. R., Gunda, N. S. K., and Mitra, S. K. (2014). Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales. Sci. Rep. 4, 7454.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zheng, Y., Ren, H., Wan, W., and Chen, X. (2013). Time-reversed wave mixing in nonlinear optics. Sci. Rep. 3, 3245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burnham, D., and Skilleås, O. M. (2012). The Aesthetics of Wine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zhang, F. ed. (2012). Shock Waves Science and Technology Library, Vol. 6: Detonation Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lai, H., Hsu, J. S.-C., and Tu, H.-M. (2014). “Exploring the Effect of Bidding Mechanisms in Online Penny Auction,” in Group Decision and Negotiation. A Process-Oriented View: Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference, GDN 2014, Toulouse, France, June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings, eds. P. Zaraté, G. E. Kersten, and J. E. Hernández (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 41–52.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Health Check: Do Ice Cream And Cold Drinks Cool Us Down? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-do-ice-cream-and-cold-drinks-cool-us-down/ (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 (2000). Reagan National Airport: Limited Opportunities to Improve Airlines’ Compliance with Noise Abatement Procedures. 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

Constantine, S. (2013). Supportive services for transitional and emancipated youth: A grant proposal. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey, G. (2009). Mileposts, With South Africa Around the Bend. New York Times, SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hedrick, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Melbourne and Webb, 2003; Hedrick, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Melbourne and Webb, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

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