How to format your references using the Journal of Happiness Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Happiness Studies. 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

Clark, R. N. (2009). Detection of adsorbed water and hydroxyl on the Moon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5952), 562–564.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicogna, I., & Wahr, J. (2006). Measurements of time-variable gravity show mass loss in Antarctica. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1754–1756.

A journal article with 3 authors

Juanes-Marcos, J. C., Althorpe, S. C., & Wrede, E. (2005). Theoretical study of geometric phase effects in the hydrogen-exchange reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1227–1230.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Marchitto, T. M., Lehman, S. J., Ortiz, J. D., Flückiger, J., & van Geen, A. (2007). Marine radiocarbon evidence for the mechanism of deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5830), 1456–1459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trout, J., & Rivkin, S. (2008). Differentiate or Die. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Erfurt-Cooper, P. (Ed.). (2014). Volcanic Tourist Destinations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fatemi, S. H., & Folsom, T. D. (2011). Prenatal Viral Infection in Mouse: An Animal Model of Schizophrenia. In J. D. Clelland (Ed.), Genomics, Proteomics, and the Nervous System (pp. 113–136). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Journal of Happiness Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, November 3). Scotland To Construct World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scotland-construct-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1989). Status of the Research Fleet of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce (No. T-RCED-89-29). 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

Nikolova, S. (2010). Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, May 17). ‘King Kong’ Gets Closer to Broadway. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clark 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Clark 2009; Velicogna and Wahr 2006).

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

Two authors: (Velicogna and Wahr 2006)
Three or more authors: (Marchitto et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Happiness Studies
Abbreviation	J. Happiness Stud.
ISSN (print)	1389-4978
ISSN (online)	1573-7780
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)