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. Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Nature. 2003;426:588.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Haldane AG, May RM. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems. Nature. 2011;469:351–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chklovskii DB, Mel BW, Svoboda K. Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature. 2004;431:782–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chauhan P, Jain R, Dey B, Tyagi AK. Adjunctive immunotherapy with α-crystallin based DNA vaccination reduces Tuberculosis chemotherapy period in chronically infected mice. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shreves R. Joomla!® Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Stahl A, editor. Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in Ophthalmology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buldú JM, Sevilla-Escoboza R, Aguirre J, Papo D, Gutiérrez R. Interconnecting Networks: The Role of Connector Links. In: Garas A, editor. Interconnected Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 61–77.

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. How I Dissected A T. Rex (It Took Chainsaws, Feathers And Lots Of Latex). IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Federal Student Aid: Timely Performance Plans and Reports Would Help Guide and Assess Achievement of Default Management Goals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Feb. Report No.: GAO-03-348.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Alnuaimi AN. The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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. Koblin J. ‘Walking Dead’ Producers Sue Its Network. New York Times. 2017 Aug 15;B5.

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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