How to format your references using the Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry. 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

van den Heuvel, E. P. J. (2008). Astronomy. An eccentric pulsar: result of a threesome? Science 320, 1298–1299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gombosi, T. I., and Hansen, K. C. (2005). Saturn’s variable magnetosphere. Science 307, 1224–1226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Häusser, M., Major, G., and Stuart, G. J. (2001). Differential shunting of EPSPs by action potentials. Science 291, 138–141.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin, J.-F., Wu, J., Zhu, J., Mao, Z., Said, A. H., Leu, B. M., et al. (2014). Abnormal elastic and vibrational behaviors of magnetite at high pressures. Sci. Rep. 4, 6282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huber, P. J. (2011). Data Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zavoral, F., Jung, J. J., and Badica, C. eds. (2014). Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vaquero, J. M. (2009). “Solar Eclipses,” in The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents, ed. J. M. Vaquero (New York, NY: Springer), 175–216.

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 Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Messenger Spacecraft Detects Ancient Magnetic Field On Mercury. 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 (1997). FCC: Competitive Service Safeguards for Local Exchange Carrier Provision of Commercial Mobile Radio Services and Implementation of Section 601(d) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 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

Sylvain, O. (2010). Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Brantley, B. (2016). Seizing the Day, Hankie in Hand. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van den Heuvel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gombosi and Hansen, 2005; van den Heuvel, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gombosi and Hansen, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2014)

About the journal

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