How to format your references using the Self and Identity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Self and Identity. 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

Heuser, J. (2003). Retrospective. “My little spontaneous blips.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schappacher, M., & Deffieux, A. (2008). Synthesis of macrocyclic copolymer brushes and their self-assembly into supramolecular tubes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1512–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser, S. M., Malik, H. S., & Emerman, M. (2007). Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5832), 1756–1758.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Najman, Y., Pringle, M., Godin, L., & Oliver, G. (2001). Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin. Nature, 410(6825), 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolson, R. F., & Clarke, W. R. (2002). Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Woolson/Statistical. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

De Haes, S. (2009). Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value (W. Van Grembergen, Ed.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Sykes, A. V., Koueta, N., & Rosas, C. (2014). Historical Review of Cephalopods Culture. In J. Iglesias, L. Fuentes, & R. Villanueva (Eds.), Cephalopod Culture (pp. 59–75). Springer Netherlands.

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 Self and Identity.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 30). How A Nasty, Brain-Eating Parasite Could Help Us Fight Cancer. 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. (1989). Health Care: Home Care Experiences of Families With Chronically Ill Children (HRD-89-73). 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

Ahn, M. (2017). Student Perception of Language Achievement and Learner Autonomy in a Blended Korean Language Course: The Case Study of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, September 22). ‘The Third Tenor’ Exits. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heuser, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Heuser, 2003; Schappacher & Deffieux, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schappacher & Deffieux, 2008)
Three authors: (Kaiser et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Najman et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Self and Identity
Abbreviation	Self Identity
ISSN (print)	1529-8868
ISSN (online)	1529-8876
Scope	General Psychology