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. Maxted PFL. Astronomy. A ghostly star revealed in silhouette. Science. 2006;314:1550–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vallina SM, Simó R. Strong relationship between DMS and the solar radiation dose over the global surface ocean. Science. 2007;315:506–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Liu M, Johnston MB, Snaith HJ. Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition. Nature. 2013;501:395–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mao H, Yu H, Chen J, Liao X. Biphasic catalysis using amphiphilic polyphenols-chelated noble metals as highly active and selective catalysts. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fabozzi FJ. Institutional Investment Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Bishop W. Geographic Information: Organization, Access, and Use. Grubesic TH, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bhidayasiri R, Tarsy D. Tremor-Dominant Parkinson’s Disease. In: Tarsy D, editor. Movement Disorders: A Video Atlas: A Video Atlas. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012. p. 8–9.

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. Luntz S. Survival Of Dust Disks Near Galactic Center A Mystery [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/survival-dust-disks-near-galactic-center-mystery/

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. OJJDP Discretionary Grant Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: GGD-96-111R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pak CH. A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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. Schwirtz M, Turkewitz J. Charred Body of Kidnapped Man Is Found on Long Island. New York Times. 2014 Jan 5;A4.

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
Scope

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