How to format your references using the International Journal of Psychology citation style

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

Bainbridge, W. S. (2003). Perceptions of science essay. Privacy and property on the Net: research questions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651), 1686–1687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elimelech, M., & Phillip, W. A. (2011). The future of seawater desalination: energy, technology, and the environment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 712–717.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, W., Wen, X., & Wang, Z. L. (2013). Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 952–957.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lou, Y., Liu, Y., Shi, C., Yao, X., & Zheng, F. (2014). Precise orbit determination of BeiDou constellation based on BETS and MGEX network. Scientific Reports, 4, 4692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S., & Bramham, J. (2012). Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Li, S., Wang, X., Okazaki, Y., Kawabe, J., Murofushi, T., & Guan, L. (Eds.). (2011). Nonlinear Mathematics for Uncertainty and its Applications (Vol. 100). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Doroshenko, A., Zhereb, K., & Yatsenko, O. (2013). Developing and Optimizing Parallel Programs with Algebra-Algorithmic and Term Rewriting Tools. In V. Ermolayev, H. C. Mayr, M. Nikitchenko, A. Spivakovsky, & G. Zholtkevych (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: 9th International Conference, ICTERI 2013, Kherson, Ukraine, June 19-22, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 70–92). Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, September 7). Babies Born By Caesarean More Likely To Develop Obesity. 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. (1995). Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants (T-HEHS-95-199). 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

Hutter-Thomas, S. (2017). Sociocultural Evolution: An Examination of Unorthodox Elective Body Modification [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Barron, J. (2016, September 23). A Museum Rights Its Course as Its Flagship Returns. New York Times, C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bainbridge, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bainbridge, 2003; Elimelech & Phillip, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Elimelech & Phillip, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0020-7594
ISSN (online)	1464-066X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology