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

Gershon, D. (2003). Complex political, ethical and legal issues surround research on human embryonic stem cells. Nature, 422(6934), 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goff, S. A., & Klee, H. J. (2006). Plant volatile compounds: sensory cues for health and nutritional value? Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 815–819.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferain, I., Colinge, C. A., & Colinge, J.-P. (2011). Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. Nature, 479(7373), 310–316.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Higham, T., Compton, T., Stringer, C., Jacobi, R., Shapiro, B., Trinkaus, E., Chandler, B., Gröning, F., Collins, C., Hillson, S., O’Higgins, P., FitzGerald, C., & Fagan, M. (2011). The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe. Nature, 479(7374), 521–524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov, B. M. (2010). Cluster Processes in Gases and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Campion, J., & Rousseaux, X. (Eds.). (2016). Policing New Risks in Modern European History. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Drugman, T., Bozkurt, B., & Dutoit, T. (2010). Glottal Source Estimation Using an Automatic Chirp Decomposition. In J. Solé-Casals & V. Zaiats (Eds.), Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2009, Vic, Spain, June 25-27. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 35–42). 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 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, January 18). Plans For World’s First “Floating City” To Be Built In The Pacific In Two Years’ Time. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/plans-for-worlds-first-floating-city-built-in-pacific-two-years-time/

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. (1993). Space Station: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign (NSIAD-93-187). 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

Meyer-Barrett, J. M. (2017). Exercising Their Privilege to Borrow: A Demonstrated Understanding of the Obligation of Student Loans in a Community College [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Pilon, M. (2013, August 27). Rhythmic Gymnastics Judges Cleared. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2003; Goff & Klee, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Goff & Klee, 2006)
Three authors: (Ferain et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Higham et al., 2011)

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