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

Elderfield, H. (2010). Climate. Seawater chemistry and climate. Science 327, 1092–1093.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belenky, P., and Collins, J. J. (2011). Microbiology. Antioxidant strategies to tolerate antibiotics. Science 334, 915–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, F., Matsushima, M., and Honkura, Y. (2005). Simulations of a quasi-Taylor state geomagnetic field including polarity reversals on the Earth Simulator. Science 309, 459–461.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hanotte, O., Bradley, D. G., Ochieng, J. W., Verjee, Y., Hill, E. W., and Rege, J. E. O. (2002). African pastoralism: genetic imprints of origins and migrations. Science 296, 336–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Relethford, J. H. (2017). 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hippe, Z. S., Kulikowski, J. L., and Mroczek, T. eds. (2012). Human – Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2: Part 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Filgueiras, E., Rebelo, F., and Moreira da Silva, F. (2011). “Human-Computer Interaction in Office Work: Evaluation of Interaction Patterns Using Office Equipment and Software during Data Entry and Navigation,” in Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers: International Conference, EHAWC 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., ed. M. M. Robertson (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 40–48.

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). Philae Wakes Up... Again! IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-wakes-again/ [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 (1976). Methodology Used in Lease-Versus-Purchase Decision for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. 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

Nelson, A. F. (2014). Anxiety in the process of individuation. An in-depth psychological study.

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

Pilon, M. (2014). Mathematicians Are Hoping Calculations Add Up to the Perfect Bracket. New York Times, SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elderfield, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Elderfield, 2010; Belenky and Collins, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Belenky and Collins, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hanotte et al., 2002)

About the journal

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

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