How to format your references using the Emotion citation style

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

Dunlop, J. S. (2011). The cosmic history of star formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6039), 178–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

David, L. A., & Alm, E. J. (2011). Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion. Nature, 469(7328), 93–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J. (2006). Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 854–856.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Xie, S. P., Liu, W. T., Liu, Q., & Nonaka, M. (2001). Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5524), 2057–2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolini, L., Elsener, B., Pedeferri, P., & Polder, R. B. (2003). Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lee, W., Wang, C., & Dagon, D. (Eds.). (2008). Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat (Vol. 36). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bloem, R., Hein, D., Röck, F., & Schumi, R. (2015). Case Study: Automatic Test Case Generation for a Secure Cache Implementation. In J. C. Blanchette & N. Kosmatov (Eds.), Tests and Proofs: 9th International Conference, TAP 2015, Held as Part of STAF 2015, L’Aquila, Italy, July 22-24, 2015. Proceedings (pp. 58–75). Springer International Publishing.

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 Emotion.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, May 18). Ancient Pottery Reveals Mysterious Invasion Of Prehistoric Britain. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-pottery-mysterious-invasion-shook-prehistoric-britain/

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. (1990). Transportation Infrastructure: Flexibility in Federal-Aid Funding Essential to Highway Program Restructuring (T-RCED-91-4). 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

Smith, K. M. (2008). Meanings of “design” in instructional technology: A conceptual analysis based on the field’s foundational literature [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, September 20). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Kremlin Opposes K.G.B. Statue. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dunlop, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (David & Alm, 2011; Dunlop, 2011).

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

Two authors: (David & Alm, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emotion
Abbreviation	Emotion
ISSN (print)	1528-3542
ISSN (online)	1931-1516
Scope	General Psychology