How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings. 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

Norman, C. (2004). HIV/AIDS in Asia. A time for action. Introduction. Science 304, 1931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, E. H., and Erwin, D. H. (2006). Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans. Science 311, 796–800.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds, J. N., Hyland, B. I., and Wickens, J. R. (2001). A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning. Nature 413, 67–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shalapour, S., Lin, X.-J., Bastian, I. N., Brain, J., Burt, A. D., Aksenov, A. A., et al. (2018). Author Correction: Inflammation-induced IgA+ cells dismantle anti-liver cancer immunity. Nature 561, E1.

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

Latawiec, K. J., Łukaniszyn, M., and Stanisławski, R. eds. (2015). Advances in Modelling and Control of Non-integer-Order Systems: 6th Conference on Non-integer Order Calculus and Its Applications, 2014 Opole, Poland. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pohlmann, M. (2013). “The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive for Professionals and Managers?,” in Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe, eds. M. Pohlmann, J. Yang, and J.-H. Lee (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 59–70.

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 Psychology for Clinical Settings.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Australian Rabbits Adapting To Eat Plants Thought To Be Too Toxic. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-rabbits-adapting-to-eat-plants-thought-to-be-too-toxic/ (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 (1999). Teacher Training: Over $1.5 Billion Federal Funds Invested in Many Programs. 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

Bai, H. (2008). High Temperature Proton-Exchange and Fuel Processing Membranes for Fuel Cells and Other Applications. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Leland, J., and Nir, S. M. (2017). The Village Voice, Keeper of Downtown Cool, Will Shed Its Print Edition. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Norman, 2004; Davidson and Erwin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Erwin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Shalapour et al., 2018)

About the journal

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