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

Bohannon, J. (2015). Scientific societies. Torture report prompts APA apology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abercrombie, R. E., & Ekström, G. (2001). Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults. Nature, 410(6824), 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, J., Lee, H.-J., & Zheng, J. J. (2013). Genome-wide network analysis of Wnt signaling in three pediatric cancers. Scientific Reports, 3, 2969.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hishida, T., Kubota, Y., Carr, A. M., & Iwasaki, H. (2009). RAD6-RAD18-RAD5-pathway-dependent tolerance to chronic low-dose ultraviolet light. Nature, 457(7229), 612–615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandru, V., & Hooker, J. (1999). Optimization Methods for Logical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gavrilovska, L., Krco, S., Milutinovic, V., Stojmenovic, I., & Trobec, R. (Eds.). (2011). Application and Multidisciplinary Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks: Concepts, Integration, and Case Studies. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lokman, A. S., & Zain, J. M. (2010). Chatbot Enhanced Algorithms: A Case Study on Implementation in Bahasa Malaysia Human Language. In F. Zavoral, J. Yaghob, P. Pichappan, & E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Networked Digital Technologies: Second International Conference, NDT 2010, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 31–44). Springer.

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

Taub, B. (2016, September 21). Medical Marijuana Laws Lead To Decrease In Opioid Painkiller Use. 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. (1998). FAA Computer Systems: Limited Progress on Year 2000 Issue Increases Risk Dramatically (AIMD-98-45). 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

Pavuluri, V. K. (2014). Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Saslow, L. (2006, July 22). Guardian Angels Welcome in Greenport. New York Times, LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Abercrombie & Ekström, 2001; Bohannon, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Abercrombie & Ekström, 2001)
Three authors: (Bao et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hishida et al., 2009)

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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