How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis citation style

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

Zwane, A. P. (2012). Economics. Implications of scarcity. Science 338, 617–618.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koch, S. W., and Knorr, A. (2001). Applied physics. Optics in the nano-world. Science 293, 2217–2218.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sang, L., Coller, H. A., and Roberts, J. M. (2008). Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1. Science 321, 1095–1100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Galli, C., Lagutina, I., Crotti, G., Colleoni, S., Turini, P., Ponderato, N., et al. (2003). Pregnancy: a cloned horse born to its dam twin. Nature 424, 635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina, J. C., and Fratta, D. (2006). Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nova, I., and Tronconi, E. eds. (2014). Urea-SCR Technology for deNOx After Treatment of Diesel Exhausts. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schubert, K.-D. (2012). “Verification Challenges of Workload Optimized Hardware Systems,” in Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 7th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2011, Haifa, Israel, December 6-8, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, eds. K. Eder, J. Lourenço, and O. Shehory (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 4–4.

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 Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). You Can Sell Your Poop For $13k Per Year And Help Science. 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 (2010). Public Transportation: Transit Agencies’ Actions to Address Increased Ridership Demand and Options to Help Meet Future Demand. 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

Grace, J. (2017). A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing 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

Neal, L. (2010). Quotation of the Day. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwane, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Koch and Knorr, 2001; Zwane, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Koch and Knorr, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Galli et al., 2003)

About the journal

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