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

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

Stuessy, T. F. (2006). Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in islands? Nature 443, E12; discussion E12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hla, T., and Im, D.-S. (2009). Cell biology. The ABCs of lipophile transport. Science 323, 883–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonekura, K., Maki-Yonekura, S., and Namba, K. (2003). Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature 424, 643–650.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miyazaki, M., Fujii, A., Ebata, T., and Mikami, N. (2004). Infrared spectroscopic evidence for protonated water clusters forming nanoscale cages. Science 304, 1134–1137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dixon, C. S. (2010). Protestants. Oxford, UK: wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Tanaka, M. ed. (2014). Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Pancreas. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, T.-K., Bieler, T. R., Kim, C.-U., and Ma, H. (2015). “Thermal Cycling Performance,” in Fundamentals of Lead-Free Solder Interconnect Technology: From Microstructures to Reliability, eds. T. R. Bieler, C.-U. Kim, and H. Ma (Boston, MA: Springer US), 113–168.

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 Schizophrenia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). The Science Of Hangovers. 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 (1992). Comments on JTPA Bills. 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

Bottorff, E. A. (2011). The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2010). David Sarkisyan, 62, Moscow Preservationist. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stuessy, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Stuessy, 2006; Hla and Im, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hla and Im, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Miyazaki et al., 2004)

About the journal

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