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

Shaw, J. E. (2014). Alejandro Zaffaroni (1923-2014). Nature, 508(7495), 187.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacArthur, B. D., & Oreffo, R. O. C. (2005). Bridging the gap. Nature, 433(7021), 19.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar, G., Graham, A. D., & Bayley, H. (2013). A tissue-like printed material. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 48–52.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fang, J., Liu, B., Zhao, Y., & Zhang, X. (2014). Two-dimensional high efficiency thin-film silicon solar cells with a lateral light trapping architecture. Scientific Reports, 4, 6169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms. (2014). TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baum, R. P., & Rösch, F. (Eds.). (2013). Theranostics, Gallium-68, and Other Radionuclides: A Pathway to Personalized Diagnosis and Treatment (Vol. 194). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Komárek, O., Felcmanová, K., Šetlíková, E., Kotabová, E., Trtílek, M., & Prášil, O. (2010). Microscopic Measurements of the Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Kinetics. In D. J. Suggett, O. Prášil, & M. A. Borowitzka (Eds.), Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications (pp. 91–101). Springer Netherlands.

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. (2015, February 8). Stem Cells Treat Brain Damage Caused By Cancer Therapy. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/stem-cells-treat-brain-injuries/

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. (2011). Additional Cost Transparency and Design Criteria Needed for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Projects (GAO-11-364R). 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

Xiao, S. (2012). Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, October 30). Someone Ought To Make a Movie. New York Times, SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shaw, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (MacArthur & Oreffo, 2005; Shaw, 2014).

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

Two authors: (MacArthur & Oreffo, 2005)
Three authors: (Villar et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Fang et al., 2014)

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