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

Cook, N. (2008). Beyond the notes. Nature, 453(7199), 1186–1187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sherratt, T. N., & Roberts, G. (2012). Ecology. When paths to cooperation converge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6100), 1304–1305.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Pontieu, B., Title, A., & Carlsson, M. (2014). Eyeing the Sun. Probing the solar interface region. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6207), 315.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

He, J., Liao, X.-Y., Zhu, J.-H., Xue, W.-Q., Shen, G.-P., Huang, S.-Y., Chen, W., & Jia, W.-H. (2014). Association of MTHFR C677T and A1298C polymorphisms with non-Hodgkin lymphoma susceptibility: evidence from a meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 4, 6159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sallaberry, C. (2013). Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bian, F., Xie, Y., Cui, X., & Zeng, Y. (Eds.). (2013). Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: International Symposium, GRMSE 2013, Wuhan, China, November 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 398). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yadav, B. S. (2011). André Weil: His Book on Number Theory and Indian References. In B. S. Yadav & M. Mohan (Eds.), Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics (pp. 55–61). Birkhäuser.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 22). New Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-alzheimers-drug-shows-promise/

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. (2008). Information Technology: Agencies Need to Establish Comprehensive Policies to Address Changes to Projects’ Cost, Schedule, and Performance Goals (GAO-08-925). 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

Migues, K. P. (2017). A Qualitative Exploration of Retention of Experienced Teachers: Why Do They Stay? [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Taylor, K. (2015, July 28). Principal Acknowledged Forging Answers on Tests for Students, Officials Say. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cook, 2008; Sherratt & Roberts, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sherratt & Roberts, 2012)
Three authors: (De Pontieu et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (He et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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