How to format your references using the Archives of Scientific Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Scientific 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Johnson, C. N. (2005). Anthropology. The remaking of Australia’s ecology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 255–256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mogk, A., & Bukau, B. (2010). Cell biology. When the beginning marks the end. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 966–967.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, W. W., Mazor, O., & Wilson, R. I. (2015). Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain. Nature, 519(7543), 353–357.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Breiling, A., Turner, B. M., Bianchi, M. E., & Orlando, V. (2001). General transcription factors bind promoters repressed by Polycomb group proteins. Nature, 412(6847), 651–655.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, P. J. (2017). Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eshach, H. (Ed.). (2006). Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools (Vol. 1). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cobley, C. M., Wegner, S. V., Streichfuss, M., & Spatz, J. P. (2013). Advances in Experimental Cell Biology and Cell-Material Interactions. In M. J. Buehler & R. Ballarini (Eds.), Materiomics: Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures (pp. 87–105). 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 Archives of Scientific Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 7). See Inside A Tiger Shark’s Mouth As It Gobbles A GoPro. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/see-inside-tiger-sharks-mouth-it-gobbles-gopro/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.19) (AIMD-10.1.19). 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

Galvarin, M. (2008). Special education paraeducators as instructional support [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Ewing, J., Tabuchi, H., & Protess, B. (2017, January 6). Volkswagen Said to Be Near Deal With U.S. in Diesel Case. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson, 2005; Mogk & Bukau, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mogk & Bukau, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Breiling et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Scientific Psychology
Abbreviation	Arch. Sci. Psychol.
ISSN (online)	2169-3269
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