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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Psychophysiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Suomalainen, A., 2015. Stem cells: Asymmetric rejuvenation. Nature 521, 296–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camilli, A., Bassler, B.L., 2006. Bacterial small-molecule signaling pathways. Science 311, 1113–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J.M., Brust-Mascher, I., Mogilner, A., 2003. Cell division. Nature 422, 746–752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, A.S., Estecio, M.R.H., Garcia-Manero, G., Kantarjian, H.M., Issa, J.-P.J., 2003. Comment on “Chromosomal instability and tumors promoted by DNA hypomethylation” and “Induction of tumors in nice by genomic hypomethylation.” Science 302, 1153; author reply 1153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, M., 2011. Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Cossentino, M., Hilaire, V., Molesini, A., Seidita, V. (Eds.), 2014. Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bain, J., 2010. Relativity and Quantum Field Theory, in: Petkov, V. (Ed.), Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 129–146.

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 Psychophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. A Tiny Version Of Hell On Earth Exists In Cleveland, Ohio [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations (No. GAO-07-194R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wistrom, C.A., 2017. Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. They Call Us Monsters. New York Times C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Suomalainen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Camilli and Bassler, 2006; Suomalainen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Camilli and Bassler, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Psychophysiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0167-8760
Scope	Physiology (medical) General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology