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

Bürgmann, R. (2015). GEOPHYSICS. Weak subduction makes great quakes. Science 349, 1162–1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purvis, A., and Hector, A. (2000). Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature 405, 212–219.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nolan, D., James, I., and Mallal, S. (2005). HIV/AIDS. HIV: experiencing the pressures of modern life. Science 307, 1422–1424.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kapitein, L. C., Peterman, E. J. G., Kwok, B. H., Kim, J. H., Kapoor, T. M., and Schmidt, C. F. (2005). The bipolar mitotic kinesin Eg5 moves on both microtubules that it crosslinks. Nature 435, 114–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley, N. G. (2004). Principles of Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D’Ambra, P., Guarracino, M., and Talia, D. eds. (2010). Euro-Par 2010 - Parallel Processing: 16th International Euro-Par Conference, Ischia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Calgaro, C. O., Tanabe, E. H., Bertuol, D. A., Silvas, F. P. C., Espinosa, D. C. R., and Tenório, J. A. S. (2015). “Leaching Processes,” in Electronic Waste: Recycling Techniques Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering., eds. H. M. Veit and A. Moura Bernardes (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 39–59.

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). How We Found Signs Of ‘Recent’ Running Water On Mars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-we-found-signs-recent-running-water-mars/ [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 (1998). Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training. 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

Xiao, E. A. (2017). Understanding Employment to Entrepreneurship Transitions among Women Working in the Tech Industry.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017). Blue Apron, Fast-Growing Pioneer in Delivering Meal Kits, Files for Public Offering. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bürgmann, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Purvis and Hector, 2000; Bürgmann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Purvis and Hector, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kapitein et al., 2005)

About the journal

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

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