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

Garrett, L. (2012). Global health hits crisis point. Nature, 482(7383), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cazenave, A., & Nerem, R. S. (2002). Geophysics. Redistributing Earth’s mass. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 783–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fasel, R., Parschau, M., & Ernst, K.-H. (2006). Amplification of chirality in two-dimensional enantiomorphous lattices. Nature, 439(7075), 449–452.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lu, L., Jia, M., Ma, Y., Yang, L., Chen, Z., Ho, D. D., Jiang, Y., & Zhang, L. (2008). The changing face of HIV in China. Nature, 455(7213), 609–611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, R. B. (2011). 20% Chance of Rain. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Long, M. (Ed.). (2013). World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering May 26-31, 2012, Beijing, China (Vol. 39). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian, X., & Cheng, Y. (2013). Inter-Domain AOM and Incremental Deployment. In Y. Cheng (Ed.), Scalable Multicasting over Next-Generation Internet: Design, Analysis and Applications (pp. 71–101). 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 Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 20). How We Caught A Glimpse Of A Supermassive Black Hole Having A Meal. 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. (1970). Expenditure of Federal Funds by Timberlane Regional High School District, New Hampshire (B-164031(1)). 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

Courtney, S. J. (2015). A Sea of Voices: An Alchemical Journey Through Dissociation [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, February 25). Back of Rotation Helps Mets Get First Exhibition Win. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garrett, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cazenave & Nerem, 2002; Garrett, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Cazenave & Nerem, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2008)

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