How to format your references using the Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology citation style

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

Melton, L. (2003). Pharmacogenetics and genotyping: on the trail of SNPs. Nature 422, 917, 919, 921, 923.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat, J., and Thiaville, A. (2000). MAGNETISM: Magnets Fast and Small. Science 290, 466–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coppedè, N., Villani, M., and Gentile, F. (2014). Diffusion driven selectivity in organic electrochemical transistors. Sci. Rep. 4, 4297.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu, J., Xie, Z., Kang, H., Li, Z., Sun, C., Bian, L., et al. (2014). High variability of atmospheric mercury in the summertime boundary layer through the central Arctic Ocean. Sci. Rep. 4, 6091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2011). Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Taylor, D. (2014). Handbook of Insomnia., eds. P. Gehrman, N. D Dautovich, K. L Lichstein, and C. S McCrae. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.

A chapter in an edited book

Rauf, S., Sienkiewicz-Paderewska, D., Malinowski, D. P., Hussain, M. M., Niazi, I. A. K., and Kausar, M. (2016). “Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures,” in Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits, eds. J. M. Al-Khayri, S. M. Jain, and D. V. Johnson (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 149–201.

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 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015). Newly Discovered Fossil Suggests Complex Skeletons Evolved Earlier Than Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/unearthed-fossil-suggests-complex-skeletons-evolved-earlier-thought/ (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 (2010). Teen Driver Safety: Additional Research Could Help States Strengthen Graduated Driver Licensing Systems. 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

Rivas, V. E. (2014). Art appreciation program for homeless children: A grant proposal project. 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

Gustines, G. G. (2011). For Archie Comics, a Return to Superheroes. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Miltat and Thiaville, 2000; Melton, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Miltat and Thiaville, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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