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:

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

Neier, R. (2014). Chemistry. A two-catalyst photochemistry route to homochiral rings. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6182), 368–369.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brosnan, S. F., & De Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature, 425(6955), 297–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samet, J. M., DeMarini, D. M., & Malling, H. V. (2004). Biomedicine. Do airborne particles induce heritable mutations? Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5673), 971–972.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Barnes, T. D., Kubota, Y., Hu, D., Jin, D. Z., & Graybiel, A. M. (2005). Activity of striatal neurons reflects dynamic encoding and recoding of procedural memories. Nature, 437(7062), 1158–1161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaud, T. (2017). Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, K.-H., & Stackebrandt, E. (Eds.). (2006). The Prokaryotes: Volume 2: Ecophysiology and Biochemistry. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dattatreya, G. R. (2009). Decision Trees. In S. E. Haupt, A. Pasini, & C. Marzban (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences (pp. 77–101). 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 Review of Social Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 23). Scientists Discovered A Two-Headed Shark. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discovered-a-twoheaded-shark/

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. (2003). National Airspace System: Better Cost Data Could Improve FAA’s Management of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (GAO-03-343). 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

Vianna, M. H. (2015). An exploration of the factors that influence Brazilian students’ fluency of English: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, M. (1992, May 31). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Carries His Message To Arkansas. New York Times, 120.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neier, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brosnan & De Waal, 2003; Neier, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brosnan & De Waal, 2003)
Three authors: (Samet et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Barnes et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Review of Social Psychology
Abbreviation	Eur. Rev. Soc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1046-3283
ISSN (online)	1479-277X
Scope	Social Psychology