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

Heeney JL. 2015. Ebola: Hidden reservoirs. Nature. 527(7579):453–55

A journal article with 2 authors

Keklikoglou I, De Palma M. 2014. Cancer: Metastasis risk after anti-macrophage therapy. Nature. 515(7525):46–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Sullivan MB, Waterbury JB, Chisholm SW. 2003. Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Nature. 424(6952):1047–51

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marx SO, Kurokawa J, Reiken S, Motoike H, D’Armiento J, et al. 2002. Requirement of a macromolecular signaling complex for beta adrenergic receptor modulation of the KCNQ1-KCNE1 potassium channel. Science. 295(5554):496–99

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan GW. 2003. Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chatterjee S. 2007. Analog Circuit Design Techniques at 0.5 V. Boston, MA: Springer US. 1st ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Murshed SM. 2005. Globalisation, Marginalisation and Conflict. In Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical “Development” Reader, ed. M Spoor, pp. 67–80. 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 Annual Review of Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. Where Did All the Ammonites Go? 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. 1989. Use of Surplus Dairy Products in the National School Lunch Program. T-RCED-89-49, 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

Smith KL. 2012. Initial construct validation of the color figure mazes test. 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

Akbar K. 2017. Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler. New York Times, Oct. 20, , p. MM22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heeney 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Heeney 2015; Keklikoglou & De Palma 2014).

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

Two authors: (Keklikoglou & De Palma 2014)
Three or more authors: (Marx et al. 2002)

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