How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology citation style

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

Christensen, U. R. (2006). A deep dynamo generating Mercury’s magnetic field. Nature 444, 1056–1058.

A journal article with 2 authors

Després, J.-P., and Lemieux, I. (2006). Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Nature 444, 881–887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsori, Y., Tournilhac, F., and Leibler, L. (2004). Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients. Nature 430, 544–547.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Delahaye, J., Hassel, J., Lindell, R., Sillanpää, M., Paalanen, M., Seppä, H., et al. (2003). Low-noise current amplifier based on mesoscopic Josephson junction. Science 299, 1045–1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goudon, T. (2016). Mathematics for Modeling and Scientific Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chesi, G. (2009). Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems., eds. A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saariluoma, P., Cañas, J. J., and Leikas, J. (2016). “Emotions, Motives, Individuals, and Cultures in Interaction,” in Designing for Life: A Human Perspective on Technology Development, eds. J. J. Cañas and J. Leikas (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK), 137–170.

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 Evolutionary Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). New Gadget Can Turn Any HDTV Into A Desktop Computer. 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 (1982). Agreement Needed on DOD Guidelines for Exempting Certain ADP Equipment and Service Procurements From the Brooks Act. 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

Coggin, L. L. (2014). Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Kelly, D. (2014). Man of War. New York Times, BR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Christensen, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen, 2006; Després and Lemieux, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Després and Lemieux, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Delahaye et al., 2003)

About the journal

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