How to format your references using the Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Niedenthal, P. M. (2007). Embodying emotion. Science 316, 1002–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krajcik, J. S., and Sutherland, L. M. (2010). Supporting students in developing literacy in science. Science 328, 456–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller, H., Peters, A., and Chu, S. (2010). A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves. Nature 463, 926–929.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jiménez Farías, O., Lombard Latune, C., Walborn, S. P., Davidovich, L., and Souto Ribeiro, P. H. (2009). Determining the dynamics of entanglement. Science 324, 1414–1417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, V. (2010). Community Banking Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wittevrongel, S., and Phung-Duc, T. eds. (2016). Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications: 23rd International Conference, ASMTA 2016, Cardiff, UK, August 24-26, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rohs, S., Spang, R., Hoffmann, L., Rohrer, F., and Schiller, C. (2013). “Do Galactic Cosmic Rays Impact the Cirrus Cloud Cover?,” in Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES): Highlights from a Priority Program, ed. F.-J. Lübken (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 79–87.

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 Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Earth’s Atmosphere Is Leaking Into Space. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-s-atmosphere-is-leaking-into-space/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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 (1982). Information on the Funded Legal Education Program. Washington, DC: 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

Moon, M. M. (2009). The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities. Washington, DC: George Washington 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. (2013). Bolshoi’s Plans for New York Remain Unclear. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Niedenthal, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Niedenthal, 2007; Krajcik and Sutherland, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Krajcik and Sutherland, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jiménez Farías et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences
Abbreviation	Front. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	1664-1078
Scope	General Psychology