How to format your references using the Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology citation style

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

Shelly, D. R. (2010). Migrating tremors illuminate complex deformation beneath the seismogenic San Andreas fault. Nature 463, 648–652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schnell, J. R., and Chou, J. J. (2008). Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus. Nature 451, 591–595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanoviak, S. P., Dudley, R., and Kaspari, M. (2005). Directed aerial descent in canopy ants. Nature 433, 624–626.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu, K., Yao, Y., Kang, Y., Liu, Y., Han, Y., Wang, Y., et al. (2013). A supramolecular approach to fabricate highly emissive smart materials. Sci. Rep. 3, 2372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Overhauser, A. (2010). Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Abolmaesumi, P., Joskowicz, L., Navab, N., and Jannin, P. eds. (2012). Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions: Third International Conference, IPCAI 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carberry, S., and Elzer, S. (2007). “Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition,” in User Modeling 2007: 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, July 25-29, 2007. Proceedings, eds. C. Conati, K. McCoy, and G. Paliouras (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 7–16.

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 Movement Science and Sport Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Luke And Leia Might Be Twins - But Thanks To Space Travel, They Wouldn’t Be The Same Age. 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 (1986). DOD Schools: Funding and Operating Alternatives for Education of Dependents. 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

Nasrollahzadeh, Y. (2013). Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: 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

Daoud, K. (2017). What Arabs Have Learned From Syria’s War. New York Times, SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelly, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Schnell and Chou, 2008; Shelly, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Schnell and Chou, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

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