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

Clutton-Brock T. 2009. Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies. Nature. 462(7269):51–57

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieseberg LH, Willis JH. 2007. Plant speciation. Science. 317(5840):910–14

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper M, Weiss U, Gray N. 2010. Plasticity. Nature. 465(7299):703

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Calford MB, Chino YM, Das A, Eysel UT, Gilbert CD, et al. 2005. Neuroscience: rewiring the adult brain. Nature. 438(7065):E3; discussion E3-4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoskins BJ, James IN. 2014. Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

López-Campos G. 2012. Microarray Detection and Characterization of Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Senikovskaya I. 2014. Biota of Typical Chernozem Under Different Land Uses in Long-Term Field Experiments. In Soil as World Heritage, ed. D Dent, pp. 21–27. 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

Andrew E. 2015. New Studies Fail To Find Associations Between Psychedelic Drugs And Mental Health Problems. IFLScience

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. 1988. Financial Markets: Preliminary Observations on the October 1987 Crash. GGD-88-38, 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

Redcay JD. 2014. Kindergarten students’ reading performance and perceptions of Ludus Reading: A mixed-method study. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Phoenix

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

Saslow L, Neroulias N. 2009. School Districts Gird For Bad-News Budgets. New York Times, March 22, , p. LI1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clutton-Brock 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Clutton-Brock 2009; Rieseberg & Willis 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rieseberg & Willis 2007)
Three or more authors: (Calford et al. 2005)

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