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

Aftergood, S. (2000). ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Polygraph Testing and the DOE National Laboratories. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5493), 939–940.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelton, J. N., & Logsdon, J. (2008). Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos, J. B., Hillis, D. M., & Greene, H. W. (2012). Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6113), 1428–1429.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miller-Jensen, K., Janes, K. A., Brugge, J. S., & Lauffenburger, D. A. (2007). Common effector processing mediates cell-specific responses to stimuli. Nature, 448(7153), 604–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abu-Jamous, B., Fa, R., & Nandi, A. K. (2015). Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Katarzyniak, R., Chiu, T.-F., Hong, C.-F., & Nguyen, N. T. (Eds.). (2011). Semantic Methods for Knowledge Management and Communication (Vol. 381). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beer, J., McCracken, K., & von Steiger, R. (2012). The Cosmic Radiation Near Earth. In K. McCracken & R. von Steiger (Eds.), Cosmogenic Radionuclides: Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments (pp. 19–78). 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

Carpineti, C. (2017, February 26). This Parasite Infested Snail Looks Like Something From A Horror Movie. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). Unmanned Aerial Systems: FAA Continues Progress toward Integration into the National Airspace (GAO-15-610). 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

Bodenmiller, J. J. (2015). A quantitative relational analysis of leadership style and leader-accountability in nonprofit organizations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, February 25). For the Mets, ‘Who’s on First?’ Isn’t a Punch Line. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aftergood, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aftergood, 2000; Pelton & Logsdon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pelton & Logsdon, 2008)
Three authors: (Losos et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Miller-Jensen et al., 2007)

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