How to format your references using the European Review of Social Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Review of Social Psychology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Sanderson, K. (2012). Vaccination: A durable design. Nature, 488(7413), S7.
A journal article with 2 authors
Reinhoudt, D. N., & Crego-Calama, M. (2002). Synthesis beyond the molecule. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2403–2407.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rohr, R. P., Saavedra, S., & Bascompte, J. (2014). Ecological networks. On the structural stability of mutualistic systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6195), 1253497.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Fyfe, J. C., von Salzen, K., Gillett, N. P., Arora, V. K., Flato, G. M., & McConnell, J. R. (2013). One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence. Scientific Reports, 3, 2645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Schattke, W., & Díez Muiño, R. (2013). Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Shakarian, P. (2011). Geospatial Abduction: Principles and Practice (V. S. Subrahmanian, Ed.). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Kuosmanen, T., Keshvari, A., & Matin, R. K. (2015). Discrete and Integer Valued Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis. In J. Zhu (Ed.), Data Envelopment Analysis: A Handbook of Models and Methods (pp. 67–103). Springer US.

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 Review of Social Psychology.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J. (2015, July 24). NASA’s Upcoming Mars Rocket Completes Critical Design Review. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2005). Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on the Federal Communications Commission’s Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Process (GAO-06-212R). 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
Steers, A. V. (2010). Releasing from the inside out: The development of the role of Helene in “Festen” [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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
Chapman, M. M., & Vlasic, B. (2012, July 31). Strong Domestic Sales Help Lift Chrysler’s Results. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Reinhoudt & Crego-Calama, 2002; Sanderson, 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Reinhoudt & Crego-Calama, 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Fyfe et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Review of Social Psychology
AbbreviationEur. Rev. Soc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)1046-3283
ISSN (online)1479-277X
ScopeSocial Psychology

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