How to format your references using the History of Psychology citation style

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

Rostrup-Nielsen, J. R. (2005). Chemistry. Making fuels from biomass. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1421–1422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wade, J., & Wood, B. J. (2001). The Earth’s “missing” niobium may be in the core. Nature, 409(6816), 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian, B. C., Clarkson, J. R., & Zwier, T. S. (2004). Direct measurement of energy thresholds to conformational isomerization in tryptamine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1169–1173.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kosaka, T., Miyajima, A., Nagata, H., Maeda, T., Kikuchi, E., & Oya, M. (2013). Human castration resistant prostate cancer rather prefer to decreased 5α-reductase activity. Scientific Reports, 3, 1268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, D. W. (2014). Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tavernarakis, N. (Ed.). (2010). Protein Metabolism and Homeostasis in Aging (Vol. 694). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kang, K., Zhang, J., Cao, Y., & Wang, Z. (2015). Simultaneously Retargeting and Super-Resolution for Stereoscopic Video. In H. Zha, X. Chen, L. Wang, & Q. Miao (Eds.), Computer Vision: CCF Chinese Conference, CCCV 2015, Xi’an, China, September 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 31–40). 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 History of Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, May 8). Scientists Find The Cells At The Root Of Balding And Gray Hair. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-find-the-cells-at-the-root-of-balding-and-gray-hair/

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. (1991). FAA Registry Systems: Key Steps Need to Be Performed Before Modernization Proceeds (IMTEC-91-29). 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

Ratzlaff, K. (2012). Dynamics of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in amphibians in the Rincon Mountains and Tucson, Arizona [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Ivory, D., & Ruiz, R. R. (2014, July 19). G.M. Resists Expanding Victims’ Fund. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rostrup-Nielsen, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rostrup-Nielsen, 2005; Wade & Wood, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wade & Wood, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kosaka et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	History of Psychology
Abbreviation	Hist. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1093-4510
ISSN (online)	1939-0610
Scope	History General Psychology