How to format your references using the Psychology of Well-Being citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Well-Being. 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

Spottiswoode CN. Evolution. How cooperation defeats cheats. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1452–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li X, Xu J. Meta-analysis of the association between dietary lycopene intake and ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Sci. Rep. 2014 May 9;4:4885.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara AK, van Keken PE, Karato S-I. Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth’s lower mantle by solid-state convection. Nature. 2002 Mar 21;416(6878):310–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

King RD, Whelan KE, Jones FM, Reiser PGK, Bryant CH, Muggleton SH, et al. Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist. Nature. 2004 Jan 15;427(6971):247–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GA. Pesticides. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Nakamura Y, Li-Beisson Y, editors. Lipids in Plant and Algae Development. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Cook A. Feeling Better: Moral Sense and Sensibility in Enlightenment Thought. In: Lloyd HM, editor. The Discourse of Sensibility: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 85–103.

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 Psychology of Well-Being.

Blog post

Luntz S. No, The CDC Is Not Covering Up Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Earth Observing System: Broader Involvement of the EOSDIS User Community Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 May. Report No.: IMTEC-92-40.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Green JT. The relationship between technology support and extent of technology integration into college-level foreign language curricula [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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

Burghardt LF. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times. 2006 Aug 20;14WC5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spottiswoode 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Xu 2014; Spottiswoode 2013).

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

Two authors: (Li and Xu 2014)
Three or more authors: (King et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Well-Being
Abbreviation	Psychol. Well Being
ISSN (online)	2211-1522
Scope