How to format your references using the International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. 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

Goodman, S. (2001). Battle to save beleaguered beluga. Nature, 412(6843), 108.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romanowicz, B., & Gung, Y. (2002). Superplumes from the core-mantle boundary to the lithosphere: implications for heat flux. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, D. S., Komdeur, J., & Burke, T. (2003). Avian behaviour: Altruism and infidelity among warblers. Nature, 422(6932), 580.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kwon, K. C., Ham, J., Kim, S., Lee, J.-L., & Kim, S. Y. (2014). Eco-friendly graphene synthesis on Cu foil electroplated by reusing Cu etchants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marteel-Parrish, A. E., & Abraham, M. A. (2013). Green Chemistry and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sharma, B. K., Kulshreshtha, S., & Rahmani, A. R. (Eds.). (2013). Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India: Conservation and Management of Vertebrates. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dubois, S., Kaaouachi, M.-H., & Petit, F. (2015). Enabling Minimal Dominating Set in Highly Dynamic Distributed Systems. In A. Pelc & A. A. Schwarzmann (Eds.), Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 17th International Symposium, SSS 2015, Edmonton, AB, Canada, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 51–66). 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 Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 30). Medication May Help Treat Cocaine Addiction For The First Time. 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. (1988). Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Automation System Investment (T-IMTEC-88-2). 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

Collette, J. C. (2017). Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, May 27). Observing the Journey of a Lacrosse Pioneer, McPhee Style. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman, 2001; Romanowicz & Gung, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Romanowicz & Gung, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kwon et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation
Abbreviation	Int. Perspect. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2157-3883
ISSN (online)	2157-3891
Scope