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

Sohn, E. (2015). Screening: Don’t look now. Nature, 527(7578), S118-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dasgupta, R., & Hirschmann, M. M. (2006). Melting in the Earth’s deep upper mantle caused by carbon dioxide. Nature, 440(7084), 659–662.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper, M., Weiss, U., & Gray, N. (2010). Plasticity. Nature, 465(7299), 703.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nomata, J., Kondo, T., Mizoguchi, T., Tamiaki, H., Itoh, S., & Fujita, Y. (2014). Dark-operative protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase generates substrate radicals by an iron-sulphur cluster in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. Scientific Reports, 4, 5455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Botto, F. (2003). Dictionary of e-Business. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lakshmanan, V. I., Roy, R., & Ramachandran, V. (Eds.). (2016). Innovative Process Development in Metallurgical Industry: Concept to Commission (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomczak, A., Koropacka, K., Smant, G., Goverse, A., & Bakker, E. (2009). Resistant Plant Responses. In R. H. Berg & C. G. Taylor (Eds.), Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism (pp. 83–113). Springer.

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, E. (2014, December 11). Two Species of Blind ‘Pseudoscorpions’ Discovered In Grand Canyon Cave. 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. (1997). Highway Safety: NHTSA’s Activities Concerning State Motorcycle Helmet Laws (RCED-97-185R). 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

Selph, C. S. (2015). Origins of Music Programs in Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story of Three Florida Catholic Universities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2016, August 20). Reaching a U.S. Apex, With a Bronze Medal in Tow. New York Times, SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dasgupta & Hirschmann, 2006; Sohn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dasgupta & Hirschmann, 2006)
Three authors: (Skipper et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Nomata et al., 2014)

About the journal

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