How to format your references using the Annual Review of Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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

Morris JW Jr. 2008. Materials science. Stronger, tougher steels. Science. 320(5879):1022–23

A journal article with 2 authors

Traverso G, Langer R. 2015. Perspective: Special delivery for the gut. Nature. 519(7544):S19

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalisz S, Vogler DW, Hanley KM. 2004. Context-dependent autonomous self-fertilization yields reproductive assurance and mixed mating. Nature. 430(7002):884–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Geldner N, Friml J, Stierhof YD, Jürgens G, Palme K. 2001. Auxin transport inhibitors block PIN1 cycling and vesicle trafficking. Nature. 413(6854):425–28

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman J. 2012. As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Villarreal FJ, ed. 2005. Interstitial Fibrosis in Heart Failure, Vol. 253. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Régnier-Loilier A, Perron Z. 2015. The Birth of the First Child. In The Contemporary Family in France: Partnership Trajectories and Domestic Organization, ed. A Régnier-Loilier, pp. 69–85. Cham: 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 Annual Review of Psychology.

Blog post

Hale T. 2017. Two-Thirds Of Germany Was Powered By Renewable Energy On Easter Sunday. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2003. Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Managing Competing Pressures Is Critical to Achieving Program Goals. GAO-03-1012T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Chen XS. 2017. Social Support Communication Behavior, Anxiety Symptomatology, and Marital Satisfaction Among Distressed Couples. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pepperdine University

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

Baker L. 2008. The Green RV. New York Times, Nov. 7, , p. D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morris 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Morris 2008; Traverso & Langer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Traverso & Langer 2015)
Three or more authors: (Geldner et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Psychology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4308
ISSN (online)	1545-2085
Scope	General Psychology