How to format your references using the Biological Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological 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

Campisi, J. (2005). Suppressing cancer: the importance of being senescent. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5736), 886–887.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aβmann, M., & Bayer, M. (2013). Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging. Scientific Reports, 3, 1545.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen, C. J., Tabor, C., & White, J. D. (2015). CLIMATE CHANGE. Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1238–1241.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chmiola, J., Yushin, G., Gogotsi, Y., Portet, C., Simon, P., & Taberna, P. L. (2006). Anomalous increase in carbon capacitance at pore sizes less than 1 nanometer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1760–1763.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Means, R. S. (2010). Green Building: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Odaka, K. (Ed.). (2016). The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present and Prospects (1st ed. 2016). Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Postema, P. G., Van den Berg, M. P., Van Tintelen, J. P., Van den Heuvel, F., Grundeken, M., Hofman, N., Van der Roest, W. P., Nannenberg, E. A., Krapels, I. P. C., Bezzina, C. R., & Wilde, A. A. M. (2014). Founder mutations in the Netherlands: SCN5a 1795insD, the first described arrhythmia overlap syndrome and one of the largest and best characterised families worldwide*. In A. A. M. Wilde & J. P. van Tintelen (Eds.), Founder mutations in inherited cardiac diseases in the Netherlands (pp. 21–27). Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.

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 Biological Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, November 4). A ten-year-old boy has discovered a 600 million year-old supernova. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ten-year-old-boy-has-discovered-600-million-year-old-supernova/

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. (2015). Aviation Security: TSA Should Take Additional Action to Obtain Stakeholder Input when Modifying the Prohibited Items List (GAO-15-261). 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

Othmanawny, G. (2017). Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Cyran, R., & Hay, G. (2010, July 8). New Ventures Win Old Financiers. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campisi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Aβmann & Bayer, 2013; Campisi, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Aβmann & Bayer, 2013)
Three authors: (Poulsen et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Chmiola et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Psychology
Abbreviation	Biol. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0301-0511
Scope	General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology