How to format your references using the Asian American Journal of Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian American Journal 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	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

Fung, I. (2013). Atmospheric science. A hyperventilating biosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6150), 1075–1076.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charness, G., & Fehr, E. (2015). ECONOMICS. From the lab to the real world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6260), 512–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bazzini, A. A., Lee, M. T., & Giraldez, A. J. (2012). Ribosome profiling shows that miR-430 reduces translation before causing mRNA decay in zebrafish. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6078), 233–237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kirmizis, A., Santos-Rosa, H., Penkett, C. J., Singer, M. A., Vermeulen, M., Mann, M., Bähler, J., Green, R. D., & Kouzarides, T. (2007). Arginine methylation at histone H3R2 controls deposition of H3K4 trimethylation. Nature, 449(7164), 928–932.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Z.-G. (2016). Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Franz, M., & Papadimitratos, P. (Eds.). (2016). Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 9th International Conference, TRUST 2016, Vienna, Austria, August 29-30, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9824). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, D., Qi, H., & Li, Z. (2011). Logical Equations. In H. Qi & Z. Li (Eds.), Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks: A Semi-tensor Product Approach (pp. 67–101). 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 Asian American Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 16). MIT’s New Robo-Cheetah Bounds Across Terrain Untethered. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/mits-new-robo-cheetah-bounds-across-terrain-untethered/

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). Attack Warning: NORAD’s Communications System Segment Replacement Program Should Be Reassessed (IMTEC-89-1). 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

Lieberman, V. (2012). One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Dynarski, S. (2017, March 13). With a Crucial Tool Disabled, Financial Aid Applications Get Harder. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fung, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Charness & Fehr, 2015; Fung, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Charness & Fehr, 2015)
Three authors: (Bazzini et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Kirmizis et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian American Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Asian Am. J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1948-1985
ISSN (online)	1948-1993
Scope	General Psychology