How to format your references using the Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport 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

Sambridge, M. (2003). Geophysics. An ensemble view of Earth’s inner core. Science 299, 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sugita, M., and Shiba, Y. (2005). Genetic tracing shows segregation of taste neuronal circuitries for bitter and sweet. Science 309, 781–785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S.-H., Chen, W.-R., and Mallamace, F. (2003). The glass-to-glass transition and its end point in a copolymer micellar system. Science 300, 619–622.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ravasio, D., Walther, A., Trost, K., Vrhovsek, U., and Wendland, J. (2014). An indirect assay for volatile compound production in yeast strains. Sci. Rep. 4, 3707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heller, D. (2011). Hairspray. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Liu, T.-Y., Scollon, C. N., and Zhu, W. eds. (2015). Social Informatics: 7th International Conference, SocInfo 2015, Beijing, China, December 9-12, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liflyand, E. (2016). “Weighted Estimates for the Discrete Hilbert Transform,” in Methods of Fourier Analysis and Approximation Theory, eds. M. Ruzhansky and S. Tikhonov (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 59–69.

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 Movement Science and Sport Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). How A Lack Of Sleep Affects Your Brain – And Personality. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-a-lack-of-sleep-affects-your-brain-and-personality/ (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 (2011). Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network. 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

Terrell, N. D. (2012). Exact solutions to combinatorial optimizations and the traveling baseball fan problem. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Firestone, D., and Brenna, S. (2013). Holidays Holding Hands. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sambridge, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sambridge, 2003; Sugita and Shiba, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sugita and Shiba, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ravasio et al., 2014)

About the journal

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