How to format your references using the European Psychologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Psychologist. 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

Thomas, C. D. (2013). The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity. Nature, 502(7469), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsen, T. W., & Graveley, B. R. (2010). Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing. Nature, 463(7280), 457–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ibarra, R. U., Edwards, J. S., & Palsson, B. O. (2002). Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth. Nature, 420(6912), 186–189.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kawai, H., Kanegae, T., Christensen, S., Kiyosue, T., Sato, Y., Imaizumi, T., Kadota, A., & Wada, M. (2003). Responses of ferns to red light are mediated by an unconventional photoreceptor. Nature, 421(6920), 287–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perera, A. H., & Buse, L. J. (2014). Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rudolph, K. L. (Ed.). (2008). Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Klein, A., & Nikkhah, G. (2014). Neurotransplantation and the Restoration of Motor Behavior in Parkinson’s Disease. In R. Ramina, P. H. P. de Aguiar, & M. Tatagiba (Eds.), Samii’s Essentials in Neurosurgery (pp. 33–46). 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 Psychologist.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, June 2). NASA Don’t Know What This Hole On Mars Is. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-dont-know-what-this-hole-on-mars-is/

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. (2017). School Bus Safety: Crash Data Trends and Federal and State Requirements (GAO-17-209). 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

Woodland, R. J. (2010). Investigating the role of the mid-Atlantic inner continental shelf as a marine finfish nursery: A comparative approach [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

Schilling, M. K. (2017, May 9). The Accidental Tourist. New York Times, M2106.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Nilsen & Graveley, 2010; Thomas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Nilsen & Graveley, 2010)
Three authors: (Ibarra et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Kawai et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Psychologist
Abbreviation	Eur. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1016-9040
ISSN (online)	1878-531X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology