How to format your references using the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical 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

Sharma, P. (2005). Physics. How to create a spin current. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5709), 531–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boots, M., & Mealor, M. (2007). Local interactions select for lower pathogen infectivity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1284–1286.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saavedra, S., Reed-Tsochas, F., & Uzzi, B. (2009). A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks. Nature, 457(7228), 463–466.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Solanki, K., Grover, N., Downs, P., Paskaleva, E. E., Mehta, K. K., Lee, L., Schadler, L. S., Kane, R. S., & Dordick, J. S. (2013). Enzyme-based listericidal nanocomposites. Scientific Reports, 3, 1584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hites, R. A., & Raff, J. D. (2012). Elements of Environmental Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mendes, P., & Snow, P. (Eds.). (2016). Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilk, S., Michalowski, M., Tan, X., & Michalowski, W. (2014). Using First-Order Logic to Represent Clinical Practice Guidelines and to Mitigate Adverse Interactions. In S. Miksch, D. Riaño, & A. ten Teije (Eds.), Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 45–61). Springer International Publishing.

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 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 16). Why Cats Are Fussy Eaters But Dogs Will Consume Almost Anything. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-cats-are-fussy-eaters-dogs-will-consume-almost-anything/

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. (1978). U.S. Economic Aid for the West Bank and Gaza (ID-78-35). 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

Harper, T. (2010). Going public, staying private, and everything in between [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Erlanger, S., & Davis, J. H. (2017, July 8). Once Dominant, U.S. Is Now Isolated at G-20. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharma, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boots & Mealor, 2007; Sharma, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Boots & Mealor, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Solanki et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Math. Stat. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0007-1102
ISSN (online)	2044-8317
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Statistics and Probability General Medicine General Psychology