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

Smil, V., V. (2000). Jumbo. Nature, 406(6793), 239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-Y., & Jameson, S. C. (2012). Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6069), 667–668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Girart, J. M., Rao, R., & Marrone, D. P. (2006). Magnetic fields in the formation of sun-like stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 812–814.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nomura, K., Ohta, H., Takagi, A., Kamiya, T., Hirano, M., & Hosono, H. (2004). Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors. Nature, 432(7016), 488–492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tanwir, S., & Perros, H. (2014). VBR Video Traffic Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barkalov, A., & Titarenko, L. (Eds.). (2008). Logic Synthesis for Compositional Microprogram Control Units (Vol. 22). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Makna, J., & Kirikova, M. (2011). Patterns-Based IS Change Management in SMEs. In W. W. Song, S. Xu, C. Wan, Y. Zhong, W. Wojtkowski, G. Wojtkowski, & H. Linger (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Asian Experiences (pp. 55–66). 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, E. (2015, May 17). Millions Of Baby Spiders Rain Down From The Sky In Australia. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/million-baby-spiders-rain-down-sky-australia/

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. (1995). Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Long-Term Viability (T-RCED-95-123). 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

Huger Marsh, D. P. (2012). Perspectives of disciplinary problems and practices in elementary schools [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, May 20). State Tax Break Is Upheld For Municipal Bonds. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Jameson, 2012; Smil, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Jameson, 2012)
Three authors: (Girart et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Nomura et al., 2004)

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