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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Starting the brain gain. Nature, 427(6971), 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milo, R., & Last, R. L. (2012). Achieving diversity in the face of constraints: lessons from metabolism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1663–1667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowler, C., Karl, D. M., & Colwell, R. R. (2009). Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity. Nature, 459(7244), 180–184.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, Y.-C., Jin, E., Jung, S. W., Kim, Y.-M., Chang, K. S., Yang, J.-W., Kim, S.-W., Kim, Y.-O., & Shin, H.-J. (2013). Utilizing the algicidal activity of aminoclay as a practical treatment for toxic red tides. Scientific Reports, 3, 1292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kyan, M., Muneesawang, P., Jarrah, K., & Guan, L. (2014). Unsupervised Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Goodwin, G. C. (2005). Constrained Control and Estimation: An Optimisation Approach (J. A. D. Doná & M. M. Seron, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pfeiffer, F. (2008). Dynamics of Hydraulic Systems. In F. Pfeiffer (Ed.), Mechanical System Dynamics (pp. 187–212). 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. (2014, September 12). Soft Robot Keeps Moving, Even After Getting Run Over By A Car. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/untethered-soft-robot-keeps-moving-even-after-getting-run-over-car/

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. (1997). Federal Communications Commission: International Settlement Rates (OGC-97-63). 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

Gada, K. K. (2015). Numerical analyses of passive and active flow control over a micro air vehicle with an optimized airfoil [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

Vlasic, B., & Chapman, M. M. (2015, November 22). Union Vote at Ford and G.M. Ends Painful Process for Big Three. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Milo & Last, 2012; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Milo & Last, 2012)
Three authors: (Bowler et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2013)

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

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