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

Goldemberg, J. (2007). Ethanol for a sustainable energy future. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 808–810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dye, C., & Raviglione, M. (2013). Perspective: Weigh all TB risks. Nature, 502(7470), S13.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maiorano, D., Moreau, J., & Méchali, M. (2000). XCDT1 is required for the assembly of pre-replicative complexes in Xenopus laevis. Nature, 404(6778), 622–625.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wille, M., Nägler, T. F., Lehmann, B., Schröder, S., & Kramers, J. D. (2008). Hydrogen sulphide release to surface waters at the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary. Nature, 453(7196), 767–769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles, R. (2012). 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Eckert, C., Katsikas, S. K., & Pernul, G. (Eds.). (2014). Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business: 11th International Conference, TrustBus 2014, Munich, Germany, September 2-3, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8647). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Anton, M., Castellani, O., & Guérin-Dubiard, C. (2007). Phosvitin. In R. Huopalahti, R. López-Fandiño, M. Anton, & R. Schade (Eds.), Bioactive Egg Compounds (pp. 17–24). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Hale, T. (2016, December 27). What Is The Ideal “Golden Number” Of Previous Sexual Partners For Men And Women? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-is-the-ideal-golden-number-of-previous-sexual-partners-for-men-and-women/. 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. (2004). Commercial Aviation: Legacy Airlines Must Further Reduce Costs to Restore Profitability (No. GAO-04-836). 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

Sanchez, Y. (2012). Effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy for Latino families: A secondary analysis of existing data (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kanter, J. (2017, January 17). Headaches Await a New E.U. Leader. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldemberg 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dye and Raviglione 2013; Goldemberg 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dye and Raviglione 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wille et al. 2008)

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)