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

Charlesworth, D. (2008). Evolution. Competitive centromeres. Science 322, 1484–1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haran, B., and Poliakoff, M. (2011). SPORE series winner. The periodic table of videos. Science 332, 1046–1047.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savrasov, S. Y., Kotliar, G., and Abrahams, E. (2001). Correlated electrons in delta-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture. Nature 410, 793–795.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Olguin, G., Yacou, C., Smart, S., and da Costa, J. C. D. (2013). Tailoring the oxidation state of cobalt through halide functionality in sol-gel silica. Sci. Rep. 3, 2449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase, C. W. (2016). Next Generation Demand Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nadamoto, A., Jatowt, A., Wierzbicki, A., and Leidner, J. L. eds. (2014). Social Informatics: SocInfo 2013 International Workshops, QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Kyoto, Japan, November 25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheth, A. N., Lahiri, C. D., and Ofotokun, I. (2015). “Sex Differences in Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics,” in Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases, eds. S. L. Klein and C. W. Roberts (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 75–102.

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

Hamilton, K. (2017). Claim Of Link Between Intelligence And Cannabis Use In Adolescence Provides Fresh Headache For Researcher. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/claim-of-link-between-intelligence-and-cannabis-use-in-adolescence-provides-fresh-headache-for-researcher/ (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 (1997). District of Columbia Draft Emergency Supplemental Funding Request for District of Columbia Public Schools. 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

Owsiak, N. K. (2008). Teacher quality accountability measures: Perceptions of degree and direction of influence on university -based teacher education programs. 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

Crow, K. (2001). A Seminary’s Proud Tower Brings Unease to Neighbors. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Charlesworth, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Charlesworth, 2008; Haran and Poliakoff, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Haran and Poliakoff, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Olguin et al., 2013)

About the journal

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