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

Ray, L. B. (2013). Single-cell biology. Cells go solo. Introduction. Science 342, 1187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsubouchi, T., and Roeder, G. S. (2005). A synaptonemal complex protein promotes homology-independent centromere coupling. Science 308, 870–873.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hirata, A., Klein, B. J., and Murakami, K. S. (2008). The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea. Nature 451, 851–854.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fölling, S., Trotzky, S., Cheinet, P., Feld, M., Saers, R., Widera, A., et al. (2007). Direct observation of second-order atom tunnelling. Nature 448, 1029–1032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann, R., and Krüger, U. (2013). Stahlbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hyndman, K. A., and Pannabecker, T. L. eds. (2015). Sodium and Water Homeostasis: Comparative, Evolutionary and Genetic Models. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ubelaker, D. H., and Montaperto, K. M. (2011). “Biomechanical and Remodeling Factors in the Interpretation of Fractures in Juveniles,” in The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations, eds. A. H. Ross and S. M. Abel (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 33–48.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Scientists Have Peered Inside The Dwarf Planet Ceres For The First Time. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-peer-inside-ceres-for-the-first-time/ (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 (1994). Tax Systems Modernization: Status of Planning and Technical Foundation. 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

Brown, M. H. (2014). An Examination of Executive Function, Stress, and Adolescent Attachment to Caregivers in a Social Neuroscience Model Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). 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

(nyt), S. K. (2003). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Breakaway Church In Talks. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ray, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Tsubouchi and Roeder, 2005; Ray, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tsubouchi and Roeder, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fölling et al., 2007)

About the journal

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