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

Cyranoski, D. (2007). Enter the dragon. Nature, 449(7161), 502–504.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leopold, P., & Perrimon, N. (2007). Drosophila and the genetics of the internal milieu. Nature, 450(7167), 186–188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylinskii, A., Gangloff, D., & Vuletić, V. (2015). Friction. Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an ion-crystal simulator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6239), 1115–1118.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schenk, P. M., McKinnon, W. B., Gwynn, D., & Moore, J. M. (2001). Flooding of Ganymede’s bright terrains by low-viscosity water-ice lavas. Nature, 410(6824), 57–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent, O., Petit, J.-P., & Gurle, D. (2005). Beyond VoIP Protocols. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tekinerdogan, B., Zdun, U., & Babar, A. (Eds.). (2016). Software Architecture: 10th European Conference, ECSA 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 28 -- December 2, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9839). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zauner, K.-P. (2005). From Prescriptive Programming of Solid-State Devices to Orchestrated Self-organisation of Informed Matter. In J.-P. Banâtre, P. Fradet, J.-L. Giavitto, & O. Michel (Eds.), Unconventional Programming Paradigms: International Workshop UPP 2004, Le Mont Saint Michel, France, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (pp. 47–55). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 American Journal of Community Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, June 9). New Metal-Air Battery Drives Car 1800Km Without Recharge. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-metal-air-battery-drives-car-1800km-without-recharge/. 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. (1989). Budgetary Implications of IRS’ Tax System Modernization and Automated Examination System Efforts (No. T-IMTEC-89-4). 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

Cook, M. M. (2017). An Examination of the Proportion of Special Education Students in Single-Parent Homes in Comparison to Regular Education Students in Similar Households (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, December 10). One Bowl That Counts And 34 Others. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2007; Leopold and Perrimon 2007).

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

Two authors: (Leopold and Perrimon 2007)
Three or more authors: (Schenk et al. 2001)

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)