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

Faedi, F. (2015). Exoplanets: A glimpse of Earth’s fate. Nature 526, 515–516.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wicherts, J. M., and Scholten, A. Z. (2013). Comment on “Poverty impedes cognitive function.” Science 342, 1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giovannetti, V., Lloyd, S., and Maccone, L. (2004). Quantum-enhanced measurements: beating the standard quantum limit. Science 306, 1330–1336.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, Y.-N., Hou, Y.-Y., Sun, M.-Z., Zhang, C.-Y., Bai, G., Zhao, X., et al. (2014). Behavioural screening of zebrafish using neuroactive traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and biological targets. Sci. Rep. 4, 5311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer, K. P. (2016). The Future of Pension Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McLuckie, A. ed. (2009). Respiratory Disease and its Management. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Henriksen, F. L., Schorling, P., Hansen, B., Schakow, H., and Larsen, M. L. (2014). “FirstAED Emergency Dispatch, Global Positioning of First Responders with Distinct Roles - A Solution to Reduce the Response Times and Ensuring Early Defibrillation in the Rural Area Langeland,” in Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings, eds. K. Saranto, M. Castrén, T. Kuusela, S. Hyrynsalmi, and S. Ojala (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 36–45.

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

Davis, J. (2017). People Living Near Busy Roads Found To Have Higher Rates Of Dementia. 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 (2005). Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Provision of Charitable Assistance. 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

Racho, M. O. (2012). Attributes of Asian American senior leaders who have retained their cultural identity and been successful in American corporations. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Lee, L. (2008). Anarchy? No, It’s Art. New York Times, ST4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Faedi, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wicherts and Scholten, 2013; Faedi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wicherts and Scholten, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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