How to format your references using the Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. 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

1. Gibson JM. Materials science. Solving amorphous structures--two pairs beat one. Science. 2012;335:929–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rizzoli SO, Betz WJ. The structural organization of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles. Science. 2004;303:2037–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhang H, Ma Z, Liu J-F. Equilibrium spin current in graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6464.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lu SF, Jin GZ, Uzzi B, Jones B. The retraction penalty: evidence from the Web of Science. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dal Pont J-P, Azzaro-Pantel C. New Approaches to the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Ducheine PAL, Schmitt MN, Osinga FPB, editors. Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare. 1st ed. 2016. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hirakawa H, Shirabe M. Rhetorical Marginalization of Science and Democracy: Politics in Risk Discourse on Radioactive Risks in Japan. In: Fujigaki Y, editor. Lessons From Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 57–86.

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 Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. High-Speed Camera Reveals Aerosols Released From Raindrops [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/high-speed-camera-reveals-aerosols-released-raindrops/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Jun. Report No.: GAO-11-604.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Peters AS. Bread and Washoku: Unveiling Japanese Identity Through the Necessity of Bread Baking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2017.

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

1. Hughes O, Kelly C. It’s Enough to Make the Generous Turn Grinchy. New York Times. 2010 Dec 19;MB9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Abbreviation	Borderline Personal. Disord. Emot. Dysregul.
ISSN (online)	2051-6673
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