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

Till, C. (2015). Earth science: Big geochemistry. Nature, 523(7560), 293–294.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu, D. L., & Bush, J. W. M. (2005). Meniscus-climbing insects. Nature, 437(7059), 733–736.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, H., Huang, N., & Zhu, Y. (2014). Analysis of wind-blown sand movement over transverse dunes. Scientific Reports, 4, 7114.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hayden, S. M., Mook, H. A., Dai, P., Perring, T. G., & Doğan, F. (2004). The structure of the high-energy spin excitations in a high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature, 429(6991), 531–534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Porter, A. L., & Cunningham, S. W. (2004). Tech Mining. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cuzzocrea, A., & Maabout, S. (Eds.). (2013). Model and Data Engineering: Third International Conference, MEDI 2013, Amantea, Italy, September 25-27, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8216). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vistulo de Abreu, F., Nolte‘Hoen, E. N. M., Almeida, C. R., & Davis, D. M. (2006). Cellular Frustration: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Cell-Mediated Immune Responses. In H. Bersini & J. Carneiro (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 37–51). 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 Review of Social Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 11). Sperm Whales Have Local Dialects, New Study Shows. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sperm-whales-have-local-dialects-new-study-shows/

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. (1996). AIP Funding for the Nation’s Largest Airports (RCED-96-219R). 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

Yanez, A. M. (2010). Chicano and Black radical activism of the 1960s: A comparison between the Brown Berets and the Black Panther Party in California [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, July 6). In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning. New York Times, C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Till, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hu & Bush, 2005; Till, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hu & Bush, 2005)
Three authors: (Jiang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Hayden et al., 2004)

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