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

Eiler, J. M. (2007). Geochemistry. The oldest fossil or just another rock? Science 317, 1046–1047.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prescott, E. D., and Julius, D. (2003). A modular PIP2 binding site as a determinant of capsaicin receptor sensitivity. Science 300, 1284–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yartsev, M. M., Witter, M. P., and Ulanovsky, N. (2011). Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature 479, 103–107.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Muotri, A. R., Chu, V. T., Marchetto, M. C. N., Deng, W., Moran, J. V., and Gage, F. H. (2005). Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition. Nature 435, 903–910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stratton, J. A. (2015). Electromagnetic Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cortez, E. (2013). Unsupervised Information Extraction by Text Segmentation., ed. A. S. da Silva. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, X., Liu, Y., and Tu, D. (2014). “Surface Modification Chemistry of Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles,” in Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications, eds. Y. Liu and D. Tu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 59–74.

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. (2014). Baby Chick Mimics Toxic Caterpillar. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-chick-mimics-toxic-caterpillar/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1997). Proprietary Schools: Poorer Student Outcomes at Schools That Rely More on Federal Student Aid. 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

Rabalais, M. E. (2014). STEAM: A National Study of the Integration of the Arts Into STEM Instruction and its Impact on Student Achievement. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Hodgman, J. (2016). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eiler, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Prescott and Julius, 2003; Eiler, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Prescott and Julius, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Muotri et al., 2005)

About the journal

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