How to format your references using the Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. 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

Guberman, S. L. (2001). Chemistry. Breaking up is hard to do without an electron. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1474–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vallina, S. M., & Simó, R. (2007). Strong relationship between DMS and the solar radiation dose over the global surface ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5811), 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vega, A. V., Avila, G., & Matthews, G. (2013). Interaction between the transcriptional corepressor Sin3B and voltage-gated sodium channels modulates functional channel expression. Scientific Reports, 3, 2809.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Benz, A., Krall, M., Schwarz, S., Dietze, D., Detz, H., Andrews, A. M., Schrenk, W., Strasser, G., & Unterrainer, K. (2014). Resonant metamaterial detectors based on THz quantum-cascade structures. Scientific Reports, 4, 4269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, K. (2015). Performance Evaluation by Simulation and Analysis with Applications to Computer Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Block, P., Kasnitz, D., Nishida, A., & Pollard, N. (Eds.). (2016). Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability (1st ed. 2016). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, C.-C., & Tyler, C. W. (2008). Spectral Analysis of fMRI Signal and Noise. In M. Onozuka & C.-T. Yen (Eds.), Novel Trends in Brain Science: Brain Imaging, Learning and Memory, Stress and Fear, and Pain (pp. 63–76). Springer Japan.

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 Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 28). Chicken Study Shows That Evolution Can Happen Quickly. 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. (1992). Tax Systems Modernization: Concerns Over Security and Privacy Elements of the Systems Architecture (IMTEC-92-63). 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

Kramer, K. A. (2010). System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, July 14). American Withdraws After Positive Drug Test. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guberman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guberman, 2001; Vallina & Simó, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Vallina & Simó, 2007)
Three authors: (Vega et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Benz et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Abbreviation	Personal. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1949-2715
ISSN (online)	1949-2723
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology