How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Psychology citation style

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

[1]

F. Robert, Isotope geochemistry. The origin of water on earth, Science 293 (2001) 1056–1058.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.C. García-Bellido, D.H. Collins, Moulting arthropod caught in the act, Nature 429 (2004) 40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.H. Thorne, R.S. Negrin, C.H. Contag, Synergistic antitumor effects of immune cell-viral biotherapy, Science 311 (2006) 1780–1784.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Mekhail, J. Seebacher, S.P. Gygi, D. Moazed, Role for perinuclear chromosome tethering in maintenance of genome stability, Nature 456 (2008) 667–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Lißner, W. Rug, Der Eurocode 5 für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung und Konstruktion von Holzbauten, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H. Emmons, Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Stam, K. Suddle, J. Hessels, A. van Stel, High-Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies, and Economic Growth, in: R. Baptista, J. Leitao (Eds.), Public Policies for Fostering Entrepreneurship: A European Perspective, Springer US, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 91–110.

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 Current Opinion in Psychology.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Supercomputer Network Employed To Shed Light On The Dark Universe, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/supercomputer-network-employed-to-shed-light-on-the-dark-universe/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Commercial Aviation: Structural Costs Continue to Challenge Legacy Airlines’ Financial Performance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.R. Carver, CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or chief “marginalized” officer, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009.

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

[1]

G.G. Gustines, On Creating Black Superheroes, New York Times (2017) D8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Opinion in Psychology
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2352-250X
Scope