How to format your references using the Frontiers in Emotion Science citation style

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

Moore, M. J. (2005). From birth to death: the complex lives of eukaryotic mRNAs. Science 309, 1514–1518.

A journal article with 2 authors

Byrne, S., and Ingersoll, A. P. (2003). A sublimation model for martian south polar ice features. Science 299, 1051–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capraro, V., Jordan, J. J., and Rand, D. G. (2014). Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments. Sci. Rep. 4, 6790.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pang, W.-W., Zhang, P., Zhang, G.-C., Xu, A.-G., and Zhao, X.-G. (2014). Morphology and growth speed of hcp domains during shock-induced phase transition in iron. Sci. Rep. 4, 3628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Madden, B. J. (2010). Wealth Creation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ruas, A., and Gold, C. eds. (2008). Headway in Spatial Data Handling: 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dedov, V. N., Griffiths, F. M., Garner, B., Halliday, G. M., and Double, K. L. (2007). “Lipid content determines aggregation of neuromelanin granules in vitro,” in Neuropsychiatric Disorders An Integrative Approach, eds. M. Gerlach, J. Deckert, K. Double, and E. Koutsilieri (Vienna: Springer), 35–38.

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 Emotion Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). 90 Megacity Mayors Pledge To Fight Dangerous Climate Change. 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 (2000). Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. 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

Adams, S. (2013). A study of childhood eating habits in the United States and their association with race and gender. 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). Justices Order Rethinking Of eBay Case. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Byrne and Ingersoll, 2003; Moore, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Byrne and Ingersoll, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Pang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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