How to format your references using the Frontiers in Psychopathology citation style

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

Macilwain, C. (2000). Green light for plans to sell off US helium reserve. Nature 405, 496.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hol, F. J. H., and Dekker, C. (2014). Zooming in to see the bigger picture: microfluidic and nanofabrication tools to study bacteria. Science 346, 1251821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y.-C., Song, S.-W., and Liu, W.-M. (2014). The confinement induced resonance in spin-orbit coupled cold atoms with Raman coupling. Sci. Rep. 4, 4992.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tang, J., Xu, Y., McKellar, A. R. W., and Jäger, W. (2002). Quantum solvation of carbonyl sulfide with helium atoms. Science 297, 2030–2033.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szpankowski, W. (2001). Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hadjisavvas, N., Komlósi, S., and Schaible, S. eds. (2005). Handbook of Generalized Convexity and Generalized Monotonicity. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yongsunthon, R., Tao, C., Rous, P., and Williams, E. D. (2011). “Surface Electromigration and Current Crowding,” in Nanophenomena at Surfaces: Fundamentals of Exotic Condensed Matter Properties, ed. M. Michailov (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 113–143.

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 Psychopathology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Rats Able To Use Tools In The Lab. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rats-able-to-use-tools-in-the-lab/ (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 (2015). Airport Funding: Changes in Aviation Activity Are Reflected in Reduced Capacity Concerns. 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

Jujhavarapu, S. (2017). Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, J. (2016). Hot Stove Warms Up: Cespedes Opts Out of Deal. New York Times, SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Hol and Dekker, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hol and Dekker, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al., 2002)

About the journal

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