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

Palese, P., 2012. Don’t censor life-saving science. Nature 481, 115.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minamishima, Y.A., Kaelin, W.G., Jr, 2010. Reactivation of hepatic EPO synthesis in mice after PHD loss. Science 329, 407.

A journal article with 3 authors

DasGupta, S., Ferreira, C.H., Miesenböck, G., 2014. FoxP influences the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision in Drosophila. Science 344, 901–904.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Farsalinos, K.E., Spyrou, A., Tsimopoulou, K., Stefopoulos, C., Romagna, G., Voudris, V., 2014. Nicotine absorption from electronic cigarette use: comparison between first and new-generation devices. Sci. Rep. 4, 4133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, F.J., Drake, P.P., 2009. Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Foresti, S. (Ed.), 2015. Security and Trust Management: 11th International Workshop, STM 2015, Vienna, Austria, September 21-22, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nifontova, I.N., Svinareva, D.A., Chertkov, J.L., Savchenko, V.G., Drize, N.J., 2008. Alterations of Frequency of Hematopoietic Precursors in Mice Subjected to Multiple Courses of Low-Dose G-CSF Injections, in: Bilko, N.M., Fehse, B., Ostertag, W., Stocking, C., Zander, A.R. (Eds.), Stem Cells and Their Potential for Clinical Application, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–62.

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, E., 2014. This Video Induces Natural Hallucinations [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/video-causes-natural-hallucinations/ (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, 1988. [Comments on GAO Legal Opinion on DOT Authority to Requisition Vessels of U.S. Citizens] (No. B-229258.2). 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

Kashyap, S.K., 2017. Bit Error Rate Performance of 4x2 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Conjugate Cancellation Techniques (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cook, L., Olsen, P.R., 2009. It Started at the Gas Pump. New York Times BU9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palese, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Minamishima and Kaelin, 2010; Palese, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Minamishima and Kaelin, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Farsalinos et al., 2014)

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