How to format your references using the Learning and Individual Differences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Learning 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	Download the output style file
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

Pfennig, K. S. (2007). Facultative mate choice drives adaptive hybridization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5852), 965–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, M., & Brody, H. (2015). Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific. Nature, 519(7544), S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ashton, A., Murray, A. B., & Arnault, O. (2001). Formation of coastline features by large-scale instabilities induced by high-angle waves. Nature, 414(6861), 296–300.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Huang, Y., Unni, A. K., Thadani, A. N., & Rawal, V. H. (2003). Hydrogen bonding: single enantiomers from a chiral-alcohol catalyst. Nature, 424(6945), 146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaisler, S. H. (2005). Software Paradigms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bilheux, H. Z., McGreevy, R., & Anderson, I. S. (Eds.). (2009). Neutron Imaging and Applications: A Reference for the Imaging Community. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Soffer, P., & Rolland, C. (2005). Combining Intention-Oriented and State-Based Process Modeling. In L. Delcambre, C. Kop, H. C. Mayr, J. Mylopoulos, & O. Pastor (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 47–62). 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 Learning and Individual Differences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, November 22). New Observation Of Photosynthesis Reveals How Much We Don’t Know. 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. (1979). Proposed Relocation of the Offices of the Social Security Administrator and Staff (B-164031(4).113). 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

Aguirre, B. L. (2010). The rise in pharmaceutical drug abuse among American adolescents [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2004, December 18). Russian Lawmakers Advance Counterterrorism Measures. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pfennig, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (May & Brody, 2015; Pfennig, 2007).

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

Two authors: (May & Brody, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Learning and Individual Differences
Abbreviation	Learn. Individ. Differ.
ISSN (print)	1041-6080
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology Education