How to format your references using the Journal of Research in Personality citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Research in Personality. 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	Download the output style file
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

Telesco, C. (2006). Astronomy. Born with flare. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5799), 605–606.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bringmann, H., & Hyman, A. A. (2005). A cytokinesis furrow is positioned by two consecutive signals. Nature, 436(7051), 731–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisniewski, W., Patschger, M., & Rüssel, C. (2013). Viscous fingering and dendritic growth of surface crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 fresnoite. Scientific Reports, 3, 3558.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pelejero, C., Calvo, E., McCulloch, M. T., Marshall, J. F., Gagan, M. K., Lough, J. M., & Opdyke, B. N. (2005). Preindustrial to modern interdecadal variability in coral reef pH. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5744), 2204–2207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benitez, M., Davidson, J., & Flaxman, L. (2009). Small Schools, Big Ideas. Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Guo, Y., Friston, K., Aldo, F., Hill, S., & Peng, H. (Eds.). (2015). Brain Informatics and Health: 8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9250). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, H. J., Lee, Y., & Kim, H.-H. (2013). Intracellular Calcium Signaling for Osteoclast Differentiation. In Y. Choi (Ed.), Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems (pp. 23–30). 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 Journal of Research in Personality.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 13). New Observations Confirm Organic Molecules In The Atmospheres Of Comets. 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. (1997). Social Security Administration: Internet Access to Personal Earnings and Benefits Information (T-AIMD/HEHS-97-123). 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

Cabrales, M. (2010). Gupta Rajpoot scheme for quark flavor mixing [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Qiu, L. (2017, March 14). Trump’s Often Misleading Critiques of the Affordable Care Act. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Telesco, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bringmann & Hyman, 2005; Telesco, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bringmann & Hyman, 2005)
Three authors: (Wisniewski et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Pelejero et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Research in Personality
Abbreviation	J. Res. Pers.
ISSN (print)	0092-6566
Scope	General Psychology Social Psychology