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

Kidd, T. (2009). Neuroscience. Crossing the line. Science 324, 893–894.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, V. M., and Bier, E. (2015). Genome editing. The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations. Science 348, 442–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depew, M. J., Lufkin, T., and Rubenstein, J. L. R. (2002). Specification of jaw subdivisions by Dlx genes. Science 298, 381–385.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ran, J., Wu, L., Wei, B., Chen, Y., and Xu, T. (2014). Simultaneous enhancements of conductivity and stability for anion exchange membranes (AEMs) through precise structure design. Sci. Rep. 4, 6486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Landa, R. (2016). Advertising by Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Constanda, C., and Pérez, M. E. eds. (2010). Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Volume 2: Computational Aspects. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Clayton, C. (2012). “mRNA Turnover in Trypanosomes,” in RNA Metabolism in Trypanosomes, ed. A. Bindereif (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 79–97.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Experimental Greenhouses Grow Strawberries Underwater. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/underwater-greenhouses-produce-delicious-strawberries-italy/ (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 (2002). NASA: Compliance With Cost Limits Cannot Be Verified. 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

Johnson, A. C. (2012). The lived experience of the adult African American female who has lived in multiple foster care placements. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006). The Legacies They Left. New York Times, 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kidd, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kidd, 2009; Gantz and Bier, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gantz and Bier, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ran et al., 2014)

About the journal

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