How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cultural Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Cultural 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 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

Spudis, P. D. (2001). Planetary science. What is the Moon made of? Science 293, 1779–1781.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teagle, D., and Ildefonse, B. (2011). Journey to the mantle of the Earth. Nature 471, 437–439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng, J.-K., Philippe, R. N., and Noel, J. P. (2012). The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science 336, 1667–1670.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fan, H., Lu, Y., Stump, A., Reed, S. T., Baer, T., Schunk, R., et al. (2000). Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures. Nature 405, 56–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewe, P. J., O’Driscoll, M. P., and Cooper, C. L. (2010). Coping with Work Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Paschmann, G., Schwartz, S. J., Escoubet, C. P., and Haaland, S. eds. (2005). Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Heidt, M., Kanellopoulos, K., Pfeiffer, L., and Rosenthal, P. (2015). “HCI and the Community of Non-users,” in Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Discourse: 4th International Conference, DUXU 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, ed. A. Marcus (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 44–52.

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 Cultural Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Humpback Whales No Longer Threatened? 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 (1993). B-2 Bomber: Comparison of Operational Capabilities and Support Costs for 15 Versus 20 Aircraft. 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

Komatsuzaki, T. (2012). Borrowing constraints and the business cycle in emerging markets. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Erlanger, S., and Davis, J. H. (2017). Once Dominant, U.S. Is Now Isolated at G-20. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spudis, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Spudis, 2001; Teagle and Ildefonse, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Teagle and Ildefonse, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2000)

About the journal

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