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

Landis, G. A. (2000). Avatars in space. Nature, 403(6772), 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trachenko, K., & Brazhkin, V. V. (2013). Duality of liquids. Scientific Reports, 3, 2188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schummers, J., Yu, H., & Sur, M. (2008). Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5883), 1638–1643.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Arendt, D., Tessmar-Raible, K., Snyman, H., Dorresteijn, A. W., & Wittbrodt, J. (2004). Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 869–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahadori, A. (2013). Waste Management in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Iba, H. (2012). Practical Applications of Evolutionary Computation to Financial Engineering: Robust Techniques for Forecasting, Trading and Hedging (C. C. Aranha, Ed.; Vol. 11). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Friesen, N., Jakob, M., Kindermann, J., Maassen, D., Poigné, A., Rüping, S., & Trabold, D. (2014). The Dicode Data Mining Services. In N. Karacapilidis (Ed.), Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making: Research and practical applications in the Dicode project (pp. 89–118). Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, June 27). The Invisible Beauty of Wireless Networks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/invisible-beauty-wireless-networks/

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. (1972). Cloud-Seeding Activities Carried Out in the United States Under Programs Supported by the Federal Agencies (B-100063). 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

Kang, H. (2006). Essays on Methodologies in Contingent Valuation and the Sustainable Management of Common Pool Resources [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, September 30). Sci-Fi Western on HBO? Yes, It’s Dark. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Landis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Landis, 2000; Trachenko & Brazhkin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Trachenko & Brazhkin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Arendt et al., 2004)

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