How to format your references using the Dreaming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dreaming. 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

Ahmed, F. (2010). Health: Edible advice. Nature, 468(7327), S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menand, T., & Tait, S. R. (2001). A phenomenological model for precursor volcanic eruptions. Nature, 411(6838), 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, S.-C., Lo, Y.-C., & Wu, H. (2010). Helical assembly in the MyD88-IRAK4-IRAK2 complex in TLR/IL-1R signalling. Nature, 465(7300), 885–890.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Santelli, E., Bankston, L. A., Leppla, S. H., & Liddington, R. C. (2004). Crystal structure of a complex between anthrax toxin and its host cell receptor. Nature, 430(7002), 905–908.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, R. X., & Conkey, A. P. (2016). Troubleshooting Rotating Machinery. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Teufel, S. (2009). Bohmian Mechanics: The Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Theory (D. Dürr, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

A.r., B., Khapra, M. M., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2013). Lost in Translation: Viability of Machine Translation for Cross Language Sentiment Analysis. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 14th International Conference, CICLing 2013, Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 38–49). 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 Dreaming.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, September 7). Babies Born By Caesarean More Likely To Develop Obesity. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/babies-born-by-caesarean-more-likely-to-develop-obesity/

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. (2001). Computer-Based Patient Records: Better Planning and Oversight By VA, DOD, and IHS Would Enhance Health Data Sharing (GAO-01-459). 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

Minger, L. (2017). Examining Education Leadership Communication Practices around Basic and Advanced Skill Sets: A Multiple Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Conte, L. (2011, April 7). Scouting Report. New York Times, E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahmed, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed, 2010; Menand & Tait, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Menand & Tait, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Santelli et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Dreaming
Abbreviation	Dreaming
ISSN (print)	1053-0797
ISSN (online)	1573-3351
Scope	General Psychology