How to format your references using the Current Psychology citation style

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

Gewin, V. (2007). Crunch time for multiple-gene tests. Nature, 445(7126), 354–355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, L., & Head, J. W., Iii. (2007). An integrated model of kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature, 447(7140), 53–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuberger, M., Zäch, M., & Spencer, N. D. (2001). Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid? Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5518), 905–908.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cao, Q., Kim, H.-S., Pimparkar, N., Kulkarni, J. P., Wang, C., Shim, M., et al. (2008). Medium-scale carbon nanotube thin-film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates. Nature, 454(7203), 495–500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu, X., Ding, C., & Hu, D. (2013). Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. Solaris South Tower, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

McCready, E., Yabushita, K., & Yoshimoto, K. (Eds.). (2014). Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kunihiro, N. (2012). On Optimal Bounds of Small Inverse Problems and Approximate GCD Problems with Higher Degree. In D. Gollmann & F. C. Freiling (Eds.), Information Security: 15th International Conference, ISC 2012, Passau, Germany, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 55–69). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Current Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 22). Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation of Photon Over 25 Kilometers. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-achieve-quantum-teleportation-photon-over-25-kilometers/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1991). Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success But Could Be Strengthened (No. T-RCED-92-3). Washington, DC: 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

Yamada, T. (2008). Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, June 29). Looking for Cash, Congress Finds Some in a Corporate Pension Rule Tweak. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2007; Wilson and Head 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Head 2007)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Psychology
Abbreviation	Curr. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1046-1310
ISSN (online)	1936-4733
Scope	General Psychology