How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular Psychiatry citation style

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

Moolgavkar, S. H. (2000). Consideration of copollutants. Science 290, 453d.

A journal article with 2 authors

Al Khawaja, U., and Stoof, H. (2001). Skyrmions in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature 411, 918–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santra, M. K., Wajapeyee, N., and Green, M. R. (2009). F-box protein FBXO31 mediates cyclin D1 degradation to induce G1 arrest after DNA damage. Nature 459, 722–725.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Socoliuc, A., Gnecco, E., Maier, S., Pfeiffer, O., Baratoff, A., Bennewitz, R., et al. (2006). Atomic-scale control of friction by actuation of nanometer-sized contacts. Science 313, 207–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

ASAE (2013). 7 Measures of Success. Washington, DC: ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership.

An edited book

Chaudhary, M. (2015). Practical jQuery., ed. A. Kumar. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Šimko, J., and Bieliková, M. (2014). “PexAce: A Method for Image Metadata Acquisition,” in Semantic Acquisition Games: Harnessing Manpower for Creating Semantics, ed. M. Bieliková (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 67–80.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Turning Street Lights Off At Night Had No Effect On The Number Of Road Accidents Or Crime Rate. 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 (1990). Defaulted Student Loans: Analysis of Defaulted Borrowers at Schools Accredited by Seven Agencies. 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

Schroder, G. L. (2015). A quantitative study of critical thinking skills in bachelors of science nursing program students. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Feeney, K. (2012). For Those Without Key Cards, Too. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moolgavkar, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Moolgavkar, 2000; Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Socoliuc et al., 2006)

About the journal

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