How to format your references using the Frontiers in Affective Disorders and Psychosomatic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Affective Disorders and Psychosomatic Research. 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

Burkov, A. (2015). PHYSICS. Chiral anomaly without relativity. Science 350, 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Casadevall, A., and Pirofski, L.-A. (2014). Microbiology: Ditch the term pathogen. Nature 516, 165–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen, R. B., Carreira, A., and Kowalczykowski, S. C. (2010). Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination. Nature 467, 678–683.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dorner, M., Horwitz, J. A., Robbins, J. B., Barry, W. T., Feng, Q., Mu, K., et al. (2011). A genetically humanized mouse model for hepatitis C virus infection. Nature 474, 208–211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthold, H. J., and Binnewies, M. (2005). Chemisches Grundpraktikum. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Driscoll, B. (2013). Entity Framework 6 Recipes., Second Edition, eds. N. Gupta, R. Vettor, Z. Hirani, and L. Tenny. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Palenik, B. (2012). “Recent Functional Genomics Studies in Marine Synechococcus,” in Functional Genomics and Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems, eds. R. Burnap and W. Vermaas (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 103–118.

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 Affective Disorders and Psychosomatic Research.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Reveal Underground Ocean. 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 (1988). Leo Herbert, GAO, 1956-1974. 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

HaMai, T. (2014). The “other” women: What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges? 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

Brantley, B. (2017). The Surveillance State of Denmark. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burkov, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Casadevall and Pirofski, 2014; Burkov, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Casadevall and Pirofski, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dorner et al., 2011)

About the journal

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