How to format your references using the Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences. 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

Lindley, D. (2001). Questions of direction. Nature 410, 305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox, A. L., and Siliciano, R. F. (2014). HIV: Not-so-innocent bystanders. Nature 505, 492–493.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malinowski, J. T., Sharpe, R. J., and Johnson, J. S. (2013). Enantioselective synthesis of pactamycin, a complex antitumor antibiotic. Science 340, 180–182.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Paterson, L., MacDonald, M. P., Arlt, J., Sibbett, W., Bryant, P. E., and Dholakia, K. (2001). Controlled rotation of optically trapped microscopic particles. Science 292, 912–914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Likhtenshtein, G. (2012). Solar Energy Conversion. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Guthoff, R. F., and Katowitz, J. A. eds. (2010). Oculoplastics and Orbit: Aesthetic and Functional Oculofacial Plastic Problem-Solving in the 21st Century. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rihmer, Z., and Döme, P. (2016). “Suicide and Bipolar Disorder,” in Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pharmacotherapy, eds. C. A. Zarate Jr. and H. K. Manji (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 53–69.

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 Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Scientists Make DNA Wires That Carry Electric Current. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-make-dna-wires-carry-electric-current/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1990). Guaranteed Student Loans: Profits of Secondary Market Lenders Vary Widely. 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

Zehnder, D. W. (2003). Host-[2]Rotaxane: A Novel Molecular Machine. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Koblin, J., and Rutenberg, J. (2017). Pelley Said to Be Leaving Anchor Post With CBS News. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lindley, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lindley, 2001; Cox and Siliciano, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cox and Siliciano, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Paterson et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology