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

Balch, A. L. (2011). Chemistry. H₂O in a desert of carbon atoms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6042), 531–532.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vallina, S. M., & Simó, R. (2007). Strong relationship between DMS and the solar radiation dose over the global surface ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5811), 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Wang, H., & Zhao, X. (2014). Effects of Rhodiola on production, health and gut development of broilers reared at high altitude in Tibet. Scientific Reports, 4, 7166.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ovchinnikov, I. V., Götherström, A., Romanova, G. P., Kharitonov, V. M., Lidén, K., & Goodwin, W. (2000). Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus. Nature, 404(6777), 490–493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, K., & Doroslovački, M. (2013). Proportionate-Type Normalized Least Mean Square Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Perner, P. (Ed.). (2011). Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 7th International Conference, MLDM 2011, New York, NY, USA, August 30 – September 3, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6871). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crespi Reghizzi, S., Breveglieri, L., & Morzenti, A. (2013). Pushdown Automata and Parsing. In L. Breveglieri & A. Morzenti (Eds.), Formal Languages and Compilation (pp. 141–291). 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 Emotion.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 2). Researcher Finds Support For One Of Darwin’s Controversial Theories. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researcher-finds-support-one-darwins-controversial-theories/

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. (1975). Critical Need for a Better System for Adjusting Top Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries (FPCD-75-140). 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

Anisko, J. J. (2012). Selling Mexico’s vistas: A visual discourse analysis of promotional materials of Loreto Bay, Mexico [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Williams, J. (2017, January 8). Feeling Blah? There’s a Book About That. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balch, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Balch, 2011; Vallina & Simó, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Vallina & Simó, 2007)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Ovchinnikov et al., 2000)

About the journal

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