How to format your references using the Frontiers in Emotion Science citation style

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

Müller, U. K. (2003). Physiology. Fish ’n flag. Science 302, 1511–1512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clement, A., and DiNezio, P. (2014). Climate change. The tropical Pacific Ocean--back in the driver’s seat? Science 343, 976–978.

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux, E. J., Marshall, C. P., and Bekker, A. (2010). Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature 463, 934–938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kolber, Z. S., Plumley, F. G., Lang, A. S., Beatty, J. T., Blankenship, R. E., VanDover, C. L., et al. (2001). Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. Science 292, 2492–2495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stockinger, P. (2013). Audiovisual Archives. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dwivedi, Y. K., Mäntymäki, M., Ravishankar, M. N., Janssen, M., Clement, M., Slade, E. L., et al. eds. (2016). Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kohler, T. (2011). “Lithuania: The Return of Opportunities,” in Financial Crisis in Eastern Europe: Road to Recovery, eds. J. Jungmann and B. Sagemann (Wiesbaden: Gabler), 257–314.

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 Emotion Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Earthquakes, Superstorms … And Other Little-Known Perils Of Climate Change. 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 (1987). Budget Reimbursements: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Reimbursable Work. 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

Lastica, J. R. (2012). Why Do They Stay? A Phenomenological Study of Secondary Science Teacher Experiences. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Hollander, S. (1999). Cadets Can’t Catch Cougars. New York Times, 811.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Müller, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Müller, 2003; Clement and DiNezio, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Clement and DiNezio, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kolber et al., 2001)

About the journal

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