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

Keimer, B. (2003). Physics. Broken Cooper pairs caught bouncing around. Science 300, 1381–1382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez-Perez, E., and Moore, G. (2004). Plant sciences. Promiscuous maize chromosomes. Science 303, 49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch, B. B., Li, H., and Johnson, A. D. (2008). Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science 319, 1797–1799.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin, W., Burgess, R. W., Dominguez, B., Pfaff, S. L., Sanes, J. R., and Lee, K. F. (2001). Distinct roles of nerve and muscle in postsynaptic differentiation of the neuromuscular synapse. Nature 410, 1057–1064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, S. (2011). Reading the American Novel 1780-1865. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Joseph, B. (2015). Paediatric Orthopaedic Diagnosis: Asking the Right Questions., eds. J. Robb, R. T. Loder, and I. Torode. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Kolobov, A. V., and Tominaga, J. (2016). “From 3D to 2D: Fabrication Methods,” in Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides, ed. J. Tominaga (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 79–107.

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

Taub, B. (2017). How LSD Could Change The World. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-lsd-could-change-the-world/ (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 (1989). Railroad Safety: FRA Needs to Correct Deficiencies in Reporting Injuries and Accidents. 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

Gonzaga Reed, R. R. (2017). The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Brantley, B. (2017). Inside Hamlet. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keimer, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Keimer, 2003; Martinez-Perez and Moore, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Martinez-Perez and Moore, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lin 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