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

Koen, D. (2004). Introductory matters. Nature, 429(6991), 584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pimm, S. L., & Brown, J. H. (2004). Ecology. Domains of diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5672), 831–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meindl, J. D., Chen, Q., & Davis, J. A. (2001). Limits on silicon nanoelectronics for terascale integration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 2044–2049.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Y.-L., Luo, W., Chen, X.-J., Zeng, Z., Lin, H.-Q., & Ahuja, R. (2013). Formation of Nanofoam carbon and re-emergence of Superconductivity in compressed CaC6. Scientific Reports, 3, 3331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anandharamakrishnan, C., & Ishwarya, S. P. (2015). Spray Drying Techniques for Food Ingredient Encapsulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bomze, I. M. (2010). Nonlinear Optimization: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 1-7, 2007 (V. F. Demyanov, R. Fletcher, T. Terlaky, G. Di Pillo, & F. Schoen, Eds.; Vol. 1989). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreuzer, M., & Robbiano, L. (2016). Computing Primary and Maximal Components. In L. Robbiano (Ed.), Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra (pp. 185–242). 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. (2015, February 26). Blocking Inflammation For Too Long Could Be Bad For Your Heart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blocking-inflammation-too-long-could-be-bad-your-heart/

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. (1990). Truck Safety: Need to Better Ensure Correction of Serious Inspection Violations (RCED-90-202). 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

Wosu, U. L. (2017). Geochemical Analysis of Late Pleistocene Sediments from Fossil Lake, Northern Lake County, Oregon [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

Kelly, R. (2000, March 26). Home Sweet Hole. New York Times, 79.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2004; Pimm & Brown, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pimm & Brown, 2004)
Three authors: (Meindl et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

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
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