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

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

Scott, J. C. (2004). Materials science. Is there an immortal memory? Science 304, 62–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheney, R. E., and Rodriguez, O. C. (2001). Cell biology. A switch to release the motor. Science 293, 1263–1264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shuman, E. S., Barry, J. F., and Demille, D. (2010). Laser cooling of a diatomic molecule. Nature 467, 820–823.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song, Q., Zhang, N., Zhai, H., Liu, S., Gu, Z., Wang, K., et al. (2014). The combination of high Q factor and chirality in twin cavities and microcavity chain. Sci. Rep. 4, 6493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, E., Nel, D., and Ólafsson, S. (2014). Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kohnen, W., and Weissauer, R. eds. (2014). Conformal Field Theory, Automorphic Forms and Related Topics: CFT, Heidelberg, September 19-23, 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hosoda, M., Akune, Y., and Aoki-Kinoshita, K. F. (2012). “Multiple Tree Alignment with Weights Applied to Carbohydrates to Extract Binding Recognition Patterns,” in Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 7th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2012, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 2012. Proceedings, eds. T. Shibuya, H. Kashima, J. Sese, and S. Ahmad (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 49–58.

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 Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Do Brain Interventions To Treat Disease Change The Essence Of Who We Are? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/do-brain-interventions-treat-disease-change-essence-who-we-are/ (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 (1997). Aviation Safety: FAA Has Begun Efforts to Make Data More Publicly Available. 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

Houger, V. P. (2011). Generational differences and the impact to employee engagement: A program design. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Fernandez, M., Pérez-Peña, R., and Santos, F. (2015). Gunman in Texas Was F.B.I. Suspect in Jihad Inquiry. 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 (Scott, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cheney and Rodriguez, 2001; Scott, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cheney and Rodriguez, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

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