How to format your references using the Journal of Happiness Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Happiness Studies. 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

Baker, D. N. (2012). NASA: Let academia lead space science. Nature, 488(7409), 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pickard, C. J., & Needs, R. J. (2014). High-pressure physics: Piling on the pressure. Nature, 511(7509), 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friis, E. M., Pedersen, K. R., & Crane, P. R. (2001). Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous. Nature, 410(6826), 357–360.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kumar, V., Chichili, V. P. R., Zhong, L., Tang, X., Velazquez-Campoy, A., Sheu, F.-S., et al. (2013). Structural basis for the interaction of unstructured neuron specific substrates neuromodulin and neurogranin with Calmodulin. Scientific reports, 3, 1392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kapterev, A. (2011). Presentation Secrets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hazas, M., Krumm, J., & Strang, T. (Eds.). (2006). Location- and Context-Awareness: Second International Workshop, LoCA 2006, Dublin, Ireland, May 10-11, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 3987). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sachdev, U., & Tzeng, E. (2014). Tips on Maintaining an Effective Lab Notebook for Bench Research. In M. R. Kibbe & S. A. LeMaire (Eds.), Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science (pp. 51–63). London: Springer.

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 Journal of Happiness Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 8). New Program Helps You Identify Birds With One Photo. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1996). NASA Budget: Carryover Balances for Selected Programs (No. NSIAD-96-206). 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

Wood, R. D. (2010). Correlation of conductor leadership style, musician employment status, organizational participation to orchestra musician job satisfaction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Tommasini, A. (2017, July 16). Holding the Stage Like a Singing Shaman. New York Times, p. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2012; Pickard and Needs 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pickard and Needs 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Happiness Studies
Abbreviation	J. Happiness Stud.
ISSN (print)	1389-4978
ISSN (online)	1573-7780
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)