How to format your references using the Frontiers in Addictive Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Addictive Disorders. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cresko, W. A. (2008). Evolution. Armor development and fitness. Science 322, 204–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., and Ma, X. L. (2013). Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Sci. Rep. 3, 3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackermann, M., Stearns, S. C., and Jenal, U. (2003). Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science 300, 1920.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yamagishi, Y., Sakuno, T., Shimura, M., and Watanabe, Y. (2008). Heterochromatin links to centromeric protection by recruiting shugoshin. Nature 455, 251–255.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padgett, S. (2014). Profiling the Fraudster. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kidokoro, T., Harata, N., Subanu, L. P., Jessen, J., Motte, A., and Seltzer, E. P. eds. (2008). Sustainable City Regions: Space, Place and Governance. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Jüttner, M. (2007). “Part-Based Strategies for Visual Categorisation and Object Recognition,” in Object Recognition, Attention, and Action, eds. N. Osaka, I. Rentschler, and I. Biederman (Tokyo: Springer Japan), 55–70.

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 Addictive Disorders.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). New Species Of Pterosaur Is A Near-Perfect Intermediate Form Between First And Final Species. 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 (1975). Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Program--Issues and Alternatives. 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

Dhah, S. (2015). The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Paulson, M. (2017). ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Is Broadway Bound. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cresko, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cresko, 2008; Chen and Ma, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yamagishi et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Addictive Disorders
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health