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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Food for thought. Nature, 423(6940), 665.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schraidt, O., & Marlovits, T. C. (2011). Three-dimensional model of Salmonella’s needle complex at subnanometer resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6021), 1192–1195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlesworth, J. D., Warren, T. L., & Brainard, M. S. (2012). Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit. Nature, 486(7402), 251–255.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Holler, M., Diaz, A., Guizar-Sicairos, M., Karvinen, P., Färm, E., Härkönen, E., Ritala, M., Menzel, A., Raabe, J., & Bunk, O. (2014). X-ray ptychographic computed tomography at 16 nm isotropic 3D resolution. Scientific Reports, 4, 3857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, J. A., & Tasman, A. (2006). Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lawry, J., Miranda, E., Bugarin, A., Li, S., Gil, M. A., Grzegorzewski, P. aw, & Hyrniewicz, O. (Eds.). (2006). Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling (Vol. 37). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Danieli, Y. (2007). Assessing Trauma Across Cultures from a Multigenerational Perspective. In J. P. Wilson & C. S.-K. Tang (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD (pp. 65–89). Springer US.

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

Andrew, D. (2015, October 1). Electron Microscope Shows How Vinyl LP’s Are Played. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/electron-microscope-shows-how-vinyl-lps-are-played/

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. (1999). Air Force Supply: Management Actions Create Spare Parts Shortages and Operations Problems (NSIAD/AIMD-99-77). 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

Ball-Miles, N. M. (2014). The relationship between witnessing verbal marital conflict as a child and the behavioral anger responses in adulthood [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Montgomery, D., Fernandez, M., & Joseph, Y. (2017, July 23). Journey Fatal for 9 Migrants Found in Truck in a San Antonio Parking Lot. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schraidt & Marlovits, 2011; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schraidt & Marlovits, 2011)
Three authors: (Charlesworth et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Holler et al., 2014)

About the journal

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