How to format your references using the Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement citation style

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

Malakoff, D. (2014). Gas revolution. The gas surge. Introduction. Science 344, 1464–1467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zampieri, N., and Chao, M. V. (2004). Structural biology. The p75 NGF receptor exposed. Science 304, 833–834.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, L., Lu, C., and Tieu, K. (2014). Atomistic simulation of tensile deformation behavior of ∑5 tilt grain boundaries in copper bicrystal. Sci. Rep. 4, 5919.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bessell, P. R., Auty, H. K., Searle, K. R., Handel, I. G., Purse, B. V., and de C Bronsvoort, B. M. (2014). Impact of temperature, feeding preference and vaccination on Schmallenberg virus transmission in Scotland. Sci. Rep. 4, 5746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simonović, S. P. (2010). Systems Approach to Management of Disasters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shen, V. ed. (2014). Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ustin, S. L., Riaño, D., Koltunov, A., Roberts, D. A., and Dennison, P. E. (2009). “Mapping Fire Risk in Mediterranean Ecosystems of California: Vegetation type, Density, Invasive Species, and Fire Frequency,” in Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems, ed. E. Chuvieco (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 41–53.

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 Quantitative Psychology and Measurement.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). The Actual Building Blocks of Planets Have Been Spotted for the First Time Ever. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/actual-building-blocks-planets-have-been-spotted-first-time-ever/ (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 (1983). Use of Federally Supported Research Facilities. 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

Schwartz, J. (2009). Essays on unemployment insurance and the business cycle. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Milhollin, G., and Motz, K. (2004). Nukes “R” Us. New York Times, A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Zampieri and Chao, 2004; Malakoff, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zampieri and Chao, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bessell et al., 2014)

About the journal

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