How to format your references using the Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. 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

Harley, C. D. G. (2011). Climate change, keystone predation, and biodiversity loss. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6059), 1124–1127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt, J. D., & Moon, R. T. (2013). Cell biology. Making a point with Wnt signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6126), 1388–1389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deleault, N. R., Lucassen, R. W., & Supattapone, S. (2003). RNA molecules stimulate prion protein conversion. Nature, 425(6959), 717–720.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Reznik, D., Pintschovius, L., Ito, M., Iikubo, S., Sato, M., Goka, H., Fujita, M., Yamada, K., Gu, G. D., & Tranquada, J. M. (2006). Electron-phonon coupling reflecting dynamic charge inhomogeneity in copper oxide superconductors. Nature, 440(7088), 1170–1173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay, R. (2014). Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Xiang, J. (Ed.). (2010). Marine Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dorczak, R. (2013). Inclusion Through the Lens of School Culture. In E. Ottesen & R. Precey (Eds.), Leadership for Inclusive Education: Values, Vision and Voices (pp. 47–57). SensePublishers.

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 Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 8). Bison Seriously Injures Second Tourist In Three Weeks At Yellowstone National Park. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bison-seriously-injures-second-tourist-three-weeks-yellowstone-national-park/

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. (2015). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Improved Risk Analysis Could Strengthen FAA’s Global Interoperability Efforts (GAO-15-608). 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

Farrell, B. M. (2010). Body composition changes and work-efficiency effects from diet modification and incorporation of an at-home exercise regimen [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kelly, S. (1994, July 3). CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times, 714.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harley, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Berndt & Moon, 2013; Harley, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Berndt & Moon, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Reznik et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Abbreviation	Personal. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1949-2715
ISSN (online)	1949-2723
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology