How to format your references using the Frontiers for Young Minds citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers for Young Minds. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Berger F. Plant sciences. Imprinting--a green variation. Science (2004) 303:483–485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tarasov L, Peltier WR. Arctic freshwater forcing of the Younger Dryas cold reversal. Nature (2005) 435:662–665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shankar N, Baghdayan AS, Gilmore MS. Modulation of virulence within a pathogenicity island in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. Nature (2002) 417:746–750.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hayton TW, Boncella JM, Scott BL, Palmer PD, Batista ER, Hay PJ. Synthesis of imido analogs of the uranyl ion. Science (2005) 310:1941–1943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCormick K, Salcedo J. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2017).

An edited book

Ábrahám E, Bonsangue M, Johnsen EB eds. Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. “Discovering Rules That Govern Monotone Phenomena,” in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques Massive Computing., eds. E. Triantaphyllou, G. Felici (Boston, MA: Springer US), 149–192.

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 for Young Minds.

Blog post

Fang J. How A Fur Seal Pup Identifies Its Mother’s Voice. IFLScience (2015) Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-fur-seal-pups-identify-their-mothers-voices/ [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. DOD Participation in the Space Transportation System: Status and Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1981).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ge Z. Link performance analysis of disaster monitoring system. (2009)

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

McKINLEY J, Yee V. Questioning Cuomo’s Order on Homelessness. New York Times (2016)A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers for Young Minds
Abbreviation	Front. Young Minds
ISSN (online)	2296-6846
Scope