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

Winnacker E-L. A chance to drive forward Europe’s science. Nature. 2013 Mar 21;495(7441):283.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines PJ, Marx J. The endless race between plant and pathogen. Science. 2001 Jun 22;292(5525):2269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sterzik MF, Bagnulo S, Palle E. Biosignatures as revealed by spectropolarimetry of Earthshine. Nature. 2012 Feb 29;483(7387):64–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stuart JM, Segal E, Koller D, Kim SK. A gene-coexpression network for global discovery of conserved genetic modules. Science. 2003 Oct 10;302(5643):249–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

Zappoli B. Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids. Beysens D, Garrabos Y, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Schreckling D, Huber S, Höhne F, Posegga J. URANOS: User-Guided Rewriting for Plugin-Enabled ANdroid ApplicatiOn Security. In: Cavallaro L, Gollmann D, editors. Information Security Theory and Practice. Security of Mobile and Cyber-Physical Systems: 7th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2013, Heraklion, Greece, May 28-30, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 50–65.

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

Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Spotted The Most Distant Oxygen In The Universe. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. NASA: Shuttle Fleet’s Safe Return to Flight Is Key to Space Station Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Oct. Report No.: GAO-04-201T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narayanan BC. Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2008.

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

Leland J. Staying ‘in the ’Hood, Up to No Good’. New York Times. 2017 Apr 20;MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winnacker 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hines and Marx 2001; Winnacker 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hines and Marx 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stuart et al. 2003)

About the journal

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