How to format your references using the European Journal of Psychological Assessment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 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

Sethna, J. P. (2007). Materials science. Crackling wires. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5848), 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clapham, P. R., & Lu, S. (2011). Vaccinology: precisely tuned antibodies nab HIV. Nature, 477(7365), 416–417.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernández, A. R., Klein, A. M., & Kirschner, M. W. (2012). Kinetic responses of β-catenin specify the sites of Wnt control. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6112), 1337–1340.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, C.-H., Huang, H., Ward, C. M., Su, J. T., Schaeffer, L. V., Guo, M., & Hay, B. A. (2007). A synthetic maternal-effect selfish genetic element drives population replacement in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5824), 597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C. (2014). Mechanical Shock. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Elmakias, D. (Ed.). (2008). New Computational Methods in Power System Reliability (Vol. 111). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Blank, W., Annema, J. T., Veseliç, M., & Rabe, K. F. (2011). Mediastinum. In G. Mathis (Ed.), Chest Sonography (pp. 115–139). 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 European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 18). Researchers Develop Solar Cells From Old Car Batteries. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/researchers-develop-solar-cells-old-car-batteries/

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. (2008). Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions (GAO-08-512R). 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

Cox, D. C. (2008). A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, May 2). Former Playmate Wins Procedural Round in Fight Over Estate. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sethna, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham & Lu, 2011; Sethna, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Clapham & Lu, 2011)
Three authors: (Hernández et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Psychol. Assess.
ISSN (print)	1015-5759
ISSN (online)	2151-2426
Scope	Applied Psychology