How to format your references using the American Journal of Community Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Community Psychology. 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

Gewin, V. (2008). Building up to an HIV vaccines. Nature, 456(7220), 418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Low, H. H., & Löwe, J. (2006). A bacterial dynamin-like protein. Nature, 444(7120), 766–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berciu, M., Rappoport, T. G., & Jankó, B. (2005). Manipulating spin and charge in magnetic semiconductors using superconducting vortices. Nature, 435(7038), 71–75.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schaak, R. E., Klimczuk, T., Foo, M. L., & Cava, R. J. (2003). Superconductivity phase diagram of Na(x)CoO2*1.3H2O. Nature, 424(6948), 527–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W., Shmulevich, I., & Astola, J. (2005). Microarray Quality Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gao, Q. (2015). The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China. (W. Zhang & F. Tian, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nyporko, A. Y. (2014). DNA Dependent DNA Polymerases as Targets for Low-Weight Molecular Inhibitors: State of Art and Prospects of Rational Design. In L. Gorb, V. Kuz’min, & E. Muratov (Eds.), Application of Computational Techniques in Pharmacy and Medicine (pp. 95–135). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 American Journal of Community Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014, December 14). Scientists Put A Worm’s Mind Into A Robot’s Body. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worms-mind-robot-body/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1993). Demand Distribution Rolodex Card (No. 154061). 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

Wadhwa, P. H. (2015). Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2013, March 21). Best-Selling Russian Turns to History. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2008; Low and Löwe 2006).

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

Two authors: (Low and Löwe 2006)
Three or more authors: (Schaak et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Community Psychology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Community Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0091-0562
ISSN (online)	1573-2770
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Applied Psychology Health(social science)