How to format your references using the Journal of Individual Differences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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

Risaliti, G. (2014). Astrophysics: Cosmic lens reveals spinning black hole. Nature, 507(7491), 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Myers, M. G., Jr, & Olson, D. P. (2012). Central nervous system control of metabolism. Nature, 491(7424), 357–363.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, K. J., Cooper, A., & Phillips, M. J. (2015). Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6255), 1460.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, Y., Yang, Y., van Overbeek, M., Donigian, J. R., Baciu, P., de Lange, T., & Lei, M. (2008). A shared docking motif in TRF1 and TRF2 used for differential recruitment of telomeric proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1092–1096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golio, M. (2006). Engineering Your Retirement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nierengarten, J.-F. (Ed.). (2014). Fullerenes and Other Carbon-Rich Nanostructures (Vol. 159). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Allinson, R. E. (2009). Value Creation as the Foundation of Economics. In L. Zsolnai, Z. Boda, & L. Fekete (Eds.), Ethical Prospects: Economy, Society, and Environment (pp. 63–87). Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Individual Differences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 8). Meteor Showers Are Warped By Gravity Of Planets. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1973). Protest Alleging Agency Did Not Evaluate Proposals Fairly (B-178220). 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

De la Pena Wing, T. (2010). Remembering Malintzin’s dream: A bridge between two cultures through language and love [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, December 16). The Place Is Rocking, and So Are the Knicks. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Risaliti, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Myers & Olson, 2012; Risaliti, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Myers & Olson, 2012)
Three authors: (Mitchell et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Individual Differences
Abbreviation	J. Individ. Differ.
ISSN (print)	1614-0001
ISSN (online)	2151-2299
Scope	Biological Psychiatry General Psychology

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