How to format your references using the Canadian Psychology citation style

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

Perrin, M. D. (2015). Astrophysics: Surprisingly fast motions in a dust disk. Nature, 526(7572), 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turecek, R., & Trussell, L. O. (2001). Presynaptic glycine receptors enhance transmitter release at a mammalian central synapse. Nature, 411(6837), 587–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weisz, C., Glowatzki, E., & Fuchs, P. (2009). The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents. Nature, 461(7267), 1126–1129.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bachilo, S. M., Strano, M. S., Kittrell, C., Hauge, R. H., Smalley, R. E., & Weisman, R. B. (2002). Structure-assigned optical spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5602), 2361–2366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baguley, D., Andersson, G., McFerran, D., & McKenna, L. (2013). Tinnitus: A Multidisciplinary Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Laghi, A. (2009). Protocolli di studio in TC spirale multistrato: Vol. 2 • Vascolare (R. Ferrari, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kozai, T., & Zhang, G. (2016). Some Aspects of the Light Environment. In T. Kozai, K. Fujiwara, & E. S. Runkle (Eds.), LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture (pp. 49–55). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 30). Explainer: Is The Ebola Virus Mutating? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/explainer-ebola-virus-mutating/

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. (1983). Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities (RCED-83-235). 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

Shrank, S. M. (2017). ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal [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

Vecsey, G. (2010, October 7). Faces Change for Yanks, but Postseason Focus Doesn’t. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perrin, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Perrin, 2015; Turecek & Trussell, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Turecek & Trussell, 2001)
Three authors: (Weisz et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Bachilo et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Psychology
Abbreviation	Can. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0708-5591
ISSN (online)	1878-7304
Scope	General Psychology