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

Savage, N. (2015). Electrochemistry: Liquid assets. Nature, 526(7575), S98-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., & Bradford, M. (2008). 2008 Visualization Challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5897), 1767.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, W., Cowin, P., & Stokes, D. L. (2003). Untangling desmosomal knots with electron tomography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5642), 109–113.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mal, P., Breiner, B., Rissanen, K., & Nitschke, J. R. (2009). White phosphorus is air-stable within a self-assembled tetrahedral capsule. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1697–1699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz, E. R., Belfort, M. A., Saade, G. R., & Miller, H. (2010). Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Hazani, R., Mrad, M. A., Tauber, D., Ulm, J., Yan, A., & Yaremchuk, M. J. (Eds.). (2016). Clinical Diagnosis in Plastic Surgery (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lu, H., Huang, S., Li, Y., & Yang, Y. (2014). Panel Data Analysis Via Variable Selection and Subject Clustering. In K. Yada (Ed.), Data Mining for Service (pp. 61–76). 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. (2015, June 4). This Test Could Predict If You’ll Die Within Five Years. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-test-predict-if-youll-die-within-five-years/

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. (1981). Better Management Needed in Automating the Federal Judiciary (GGD-81-19). 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

Jategaonkar, S. P. (2009). Two essays on stock repurchases and insider trading [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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. (2010, December 26). Sports Take Him Away; Smells Bring Him Home. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nesbit & Bradford, 2008; Savage, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit & Bradford, 2008)
Three authors: (He et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Mal et al., 2009)

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

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