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

Morange M. François Jacob (1920-2013). Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oki T, Kanae S. Global hydrological cycles and world water resources. Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1068–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Padian K, de Ricqlès AJ, Horner JR. Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins. Nature. 2001 Jul 26;412(6845):405–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou C, Cheng X, Zhao Q, Yan Y, Wang J, Huang J. Self-assembly of channel type β-CD dimers induced by dodecane. Sci. Rep. 2014 Dec 22;4:7533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lipiansky E. Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Sonis ST, Keefe DM, editors. Pathobiology of Cancer Regimen-Related Toxicities. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Auerbach JE, Bongard JC. Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers through Incremental Shaping. In: Doncieux S, Bredèche N, Mouret J-B, editors. New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics: Extended Contributions from the 2009 EvoDeRob Workshop. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 55–65.

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

Andrew E. Snake Has Yet Another Virgin Birth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/single-snake-has-another-virgin-birth/

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. Aviation Research: Progress Has Been Made but Several Factors Will Affect Program Success. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-92-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kinney EL. Isolation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility analysis of Enterococccus spp. and Salmonella spp. from conventional poultry farms transitioning to organic farming practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Barnes B, Koblin J. ABC’s ‘Live’ Ends Search, Naming Seacrest Co-Host. New York Times. 2017 May 1;B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morange 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Morange 2013; Oki and Kanae 2006).

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

Two authors: (Oki and Kanae 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

About the journal

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