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

Killworth, P. D. (2004). Comment on “Oceanic Rossby waves acting as a ‘hay rake’ for ecosystem floating by-products.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5669), 390; author reply 390.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitan, I. B., & Cibulsky, S. M. (2001). Biochemistry. TRP ion channels--two proteins in one. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

Franke, K. J., Schulze, G., & Pascual, J. I. (2011). Competition of superconducting phenomena and Kondo screening at the nanoscale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 940–944.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ihee, H., Lorenc, M., Kim, T. K., Kong, Q. Y., Cammarata, M., Lee, J. H., et al. (2005). Ultrafast x-ray diffraction of transient molecular structures in solution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1223–1227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearson, D., & Grace, C. (2012). Weight Management. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Bode, A., & Durst, F. (Eds.). (2005). High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching 2004: Transactions of the KONWIHR Result Workshop, October 14–15, 2004, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anselmo, M., & Madonia, M. (2011). Comparing Necessary Conditions for Recognizability of Two-Dimensional Languages. In F. Winkler (Ed.), Algebraic Informatics: 4th International Conference, CAI 2011, Linz, Austria, June 21-24, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 84–96). 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

Fang, J. (2015, May 28). Longer Migration Routes Led to Drab Female Warblers. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2006). Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services (No. GAO-07-80). 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

Funderburk, J. (2010). Modern Variation in Predation Intensity: Constraints on Assessing Predator-Prey Relationships in Paleoecologic Reconstructions (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 12). A Plea for Robot Rights. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Killworth 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Killworth 2004; Levitan and Cibulsky 2001).

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

Two authors: (Levitan and Cibulsky 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ihee et al. 2005)

About the journal

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