How to format your references using the Acta Psychologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Psychologica. 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 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

Franson, J. D. (2010). Physics. Pairs rule quantum interference. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5990), 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coura, J. R., & Viñas, P. A. (2010). Chagas disease: a new worldwide challenge. Nature, 465(7301), S6-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caraveo-Frescas, J. A., Khan, M. A., & Alshareef, H. N. (2014). Polymer ferroelectric field-effect memory device with SnO channel layer exhibits record hole mobility. Scientific Reports, 4, 5243.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qu, L., Dai, L., Stone, M., Xia, Z., & Wang, Z. L. (2008). Carbon nanotube arrays with strong shear binding-on and easy normal lifting-off. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 238–242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C. (2014). Specification Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Holz, T., & Ioannidis, S. (Eds.). (2014). Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 7th International Conference, TRUST 2014, Heraklion, Crete, June 30 – July 2, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8564). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Newman, L. (2012). Questions About Gender: Children with Atypical Gender Development. In J. M. Hutson, G. L. Warne, & S. R. Grover (Eds.), Disorders of Sex Development: An Integrated Approach to Management (pp. 31–39). 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 Acta Psychologica.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, March 7). Survey Finds Americans Are Confused About Climate Change But Support Climate Policy. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/survey-finds-americans-are-confused-about-climate-change-but-support-climate-policy/

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. (1989). Reports Issued in June 1989 (139191). 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

Glock, M. (2008). Cultural futuristics: Bringing consciousness to cultural complexes and soul to scenario based planning [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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. (2009, January 18). Sheltering Realtors’ Commissions. New York Times, RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Franson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Coura & Viñas, 2010; Franson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Coura & Viñas, 2010)
Three authors: (Caraveo-Frescas et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Qu et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Psychologica
Abbreviation	Acta Psychol. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0001-6918
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology