How to format your references using the Experimental Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental 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

Lucey, P. G. (2013). Planetary science. A wet and volatile Mercury. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 282–283.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nanus, D. M., & Giannakakou, P. (2015). CANCER. Cancer therapies that are gone with the Wnt. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6254), 1283–1284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack, A., Shelley, J. M. G., & Palme, H. (2004). Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5660), 997–1000.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnson, L., Mercer, K., Greenbaum, D., Bronson, R. T., Crowley, D., Tuveson, D. A., & Jacks, T. (2001). Somatic activation of the K-ras oncogene causes early onset lung cancer in mice. Nature, 410(6832), 1111–1116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D. M. (2009). World Wide Rave. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fang, E. F., & Ng, T. B. (Eds.). (2013). Antitumor Potential and other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Balliauw, M., & Decoster, X. (2012). Publishing Packages. In X. Decoster (Ed.), Pro NuGet (pp. 81–103). Apress.

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 Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 22). Researchers find Physical Differences in Empathetic Peoples’ Brains. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-find-physical-differences-empathetic-peoples-brains/

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. (1968). Research and Development--and the Congress (091220). 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

Mycroft, D. (2012). Minorities in leadership and financial performance of their Fortune 500 companies [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2016, December 31). Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucey, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lucey, 2013; Nanus & Giannakakou, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nanus & Giannakakou, 2015)
Three authors: (Pack et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Psychology
Abbreviation	Exp. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1618-3169
ISSN (online)	2190-5142
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology