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 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

Triendl, R. (2000). Japan’s cloning ban will allow stem cell experiments. Nature, 404(6776), 321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Christensen, S. T., & Ott, C. M. (2007). Cell signaling. A ciliary signaling switch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5836), 330–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muraoka, T., Kinbara, K., & Aida, T. (2006). Mechanical twisting of a guest by a photoresponsive host. Nature, 440(7083), 512–515.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Monteiro, J. M., Pereira, A. R., Reichmann, N. T., Saraiva, B. M., Fernandes, P. B., Veiga, H., Tavares, A. C., Santos, M., Ferreira, M. T., Macário, V., VanNieuwenhze, M. S., Filipe, S. R., & Pinho, M. G. (2018). Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis. Nature, 554(7693), 528–532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moorhouse, M., & Barry, P. (2005). Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hazzan, O. (2014). Guide to Teaching Computer Science: An Activity-Based Approach (T. Lapidot & N. Ragonis, Eds.; 2nd ed. 2014). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S. J., & Diamond, B. (2015). Endogenous Control of Dendritic Cell Activation by miRNA. In C. M. Greene (Ed.), MicroRNAs and Other Non-Coding RNAs in Inflammation (pp. 85–103). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, October 10). Chemistry Nobel DNA Research Lays Foundation For New Ways To Fight Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemistry-nobel-dna-research-lays-foundation-new-ways-fight-cancer/

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. (1991). Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed (IMTEC-91-48). 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

Fay, C. (2017). Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals [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

Kelly, C. (2012, March 4). Austin Auteur Tries Traditional but Stays Eccentric. New York Times, A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen & Ott, 2007; Triendl, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Christensen & Ott, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Monteiro et al., 2018)

About the journal

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