How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology citation style

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

Scalapino, D. J. (2008). Physics. This coincidence cannot be accidental. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1492–1493.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron, J. L., & Bynum, W. F. (2003). 1903 and all that. Nature, 421(6918), 15–18.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, R. R., Krause, D. W., & Curry Rogers, K. (2003). Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. Nature, 422(6931), 515–518.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bhujbal, S. V., de Haan, B., Niclou, S. P., & de Vos, P. (2014). A novel multilayer immunoisolating encapsulation system overcoming protrusion of cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Riegel, M., Kroeselberg, D., Chindapol, A., & Premec, D. (2009). Deploying Mobile WiMAX. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brooks, A. L., Brahnam, S., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2014). Technologies of Inclusive Well-Being: Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy (Vol. 536). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schär, M. O., & Rodeo, S. A. (2014). Biology of Injury and Repair of Soft Tissues of the Shoulder. In G. Milano & A. Grasso (Eds.), Shoulder Arthroscopy: Principles and Practice (pp. 59–72). 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 Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 17). Ban Imported American Lobsters – Before They Take Over Europe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ban-imported-american-lobsters-before-they-take-over-europe/

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. (1990). Government Civilian Aircraft: Use of Government Aircraft by the Attorney General and FBI Director (GGD-90-84). 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

Diaz Gonzalez, A. J. (2017). High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Shpigel, B. (2016, September 12). At 8 Feet Tall, He Sat Down and Started Getting Noticed. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scalapino, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Heilbron & Bynum, 2003; Scalapino, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron & Bynum, 2003)
Three authors: (Rogers et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Bhujbal et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
Abbreviation	Can. J. Exp. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1196-1961
ISSN (online)	1878-7290
Scope	General Medicine Experimental and Cognitive Psychology