How to format your references using the British Journal of Social Psychology citation style

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

Aguzzi, A. (2005). Cell biology. Prion toxicity: all sail and no anchor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1420–1421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chambers, J. Q., & Roberts, D. A. (2014). Ecology: drought in the congo basin. Nature, 509(7498), 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malmgren, R. D., Ottino, J. M., & Nunes Amaral, L. A. (2010). The role of mentorship in protégé performance. Nature, 465(7298), 622–626.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gross, C., Zhuang, X., Stark, K., Ramboz, S., Oosting, R., Kirby, L., Santarelli, L., Beck, S., & Hen, R. (2002). Serotonin1A receptor acts during development to establish normal anxiety-like behaviour in the adult. Nature, 416(6879), 396–400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The American Ceramic Society. (2009). Progress in Nanotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Danos, V., & Schachter, V. (Eds.). (2005). Computational Methods in Systems Biology: International Conference CMSB 2004, Paris, France, May 26-28, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3082). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

van Rooij, A. C. L. M., & Wegner, W. (2014). Numerical Investigation of the Flutter Behaviour of a Laminar Supercritical Airfoil. In A. Dillmann, G. Heller, E. Krämer, H.-P. Kreplin, W. Nitsche, & U. Rist (Eds.), New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics IX: Contributions to the 18th STAB/DGLR Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012 (pp. 33–41). 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 Social Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 13). How Our Discovery Of Microbe Traces In Ancient Rocks On Earth Could Help Us Find Life On Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-our-discovery-of-microbe-traces-in-ancient-rocks-on-earth-could-help-us-find-life-on-mars/

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). Aviation Safety: Airlines Should Check Pilot Applicants’ Safety History (RCED-88-154). 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

Pryor, G. L. (2013). Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Cooper, M., & Walsh, M. W. (2010, December 5). MOUNTING DEBTS BY STATES STOKE FEARS OF CRISIS. 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 (Aguzzi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi, 2005; Chambers & Roberts, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chambers & Roberts, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gross et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Social Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Soc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0144-6665
ISSN (online)	2044-8309
Scope	Social Psychology