How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology citation style

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

Maynard, H. (2015). Chemical biology: Protein modification in a trice. Nature 526, 646–647.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williamson, C. E., and Rose, K. C. (2010). Environmental science. When UV meets fresh water. Science 329, 637–639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Udem, T., Holzwarth, R., and Hänsch, T. W. (2002). Optical frequency metrology. Nature 416, 233–237.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Milly, P. C. D., Betancourt, J., Falkenmark, M., Hirsch, R. M., Kundzewicz, Z. W., Lettenmaier, D. P., et al. (2008). Climate change. Stationarity is dead: whither water management? Science 319, 573–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matlock, M. D., and Morgan, R. A. (2011). Ecological Engineering Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mehrotra, S., Zeng, D. D., Chen, H., Thuraisingham, B., and Wang, F.-Y. eds. (2006). Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2006, San Diego, CA, USA, May 23-24, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arnoldi, K. (2010). “The Monofixation Syndrome: New Considerations on Pathophysiology,” in Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, eds. B. Lorenz and M. C. Brodsky (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–40.

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 Evolutionary Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Iron Disrupts Appetite Hormone, Possibly Triggering Obesity. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/iron-disrupts-appetite-hormone-possibly-triggering-obesity/ (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 (1987). Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 9. 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

Beechey, S. N. (2008). The politics of deservingness: Discourses of gender, race, *class, and age in the 2005 Social Security debates. 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

Leland, J. (2016). New Rock Stars of Chess Riff, With a Whiff of Cold War Intrigue. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maynard, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Williamson and Rose, 2010; Maynard, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Williamson and Rose, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Milly et al., 2008)

About the journal

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