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

Benitez-Nelson, C. (2015). Ocean chemistry. The missing link in oceanic phosphorus cycling? Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6236), 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, B., & Bony, S. (2013). Climate change. What are climate models missing? Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1053–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt, G. R., Corballis, M. C., & Gray, R. D. (2001). Animal behaviour: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows. Nature, 414(6865), 707.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yu, M., Wu, P., Widelitz, R. B., & Chuong, C.-M. (2002). The morphogenesis of feathers. Nature, 420(6913), 308–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ho, R. J. Y., & Gibaldi, M. (2003). Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tweedale, J. W., Jain, L. C., Watada, J., & Howlett, R. J. (Eds.). (2015). Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice (Vol. 30). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cohen, Y. H., & Reich, Y. (2016). Research Model. In Y. Reich (Ed.), Biomimetic Design Method for Innovation and Sustainability (pp. 53–60). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, September 18). Artificial Sweeteners Associated With Glucose Intolerance. 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. (1971). Fees Allowed Nonsponsored Not-for-Profit Organizations by Various Government Agencies (B-146810). 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

Palmer, C. M. (2010). Intramural scheduling time preferences to increase student participation [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2007, July 6). After Celebrating Winning Bid, Russia Has Work Ahead. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benitez-Nelson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Benitez-Nelson, 2015; Stevens & Bony, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stevens & Bony, 2013)
Three authors: (Hunt et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Yu et al., 2002)

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

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