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

Pudritz, R. E. (2002). Clustered star formation and the origin of stellar masses. Science 295, 68–76.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jetz, W., and Rahbek, C. (2002). Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness. Science 297, 1548–1551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller, M. F., Wright, J. D., and Kent, D. V. (2011). Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science 331, 1404–1409.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schilling, M. M., Oeser, J. K., Boustead, J. N., Flemming, B. P., and O’Brien, R. M. (2006). Gluconeogenesis: re-evaluating the FOXO1-PGC-1alpha connection. Nature 443, E10-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2014). Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crisan, D. ed. (2011). Stochastic Analysis 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hatano, H., Kitamura, K., and Liu, Y. (2007). “Growth and Photorefractive Properties of Stoichiometric LiNbO3 and LiTaO3,” in Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 2: Materials, eds. P. Günter and J.-P. Huignard (New York, NY: Springer), 127–164.

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, D. (2017). Aboriginal Australians Co-Existed With The Megafauna For At Least 17,000 Years. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/aboriginal-australians-coexisted-with-the-megafauna-for-at-least-17000-years/ (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 (1976). Survey of Public Affairs Activities by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 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

Ayer, E. W. (2013). An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Davis, J. H., and Rosenberg, M. (2017). Even Defining Victory in Afghanistan Is Hard. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pudritz, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jetz and Rahbek, 2002; Pudritz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jetz and Rahbek, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schilling et al., 2006)

About the journal

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