How to format your references using the Journal of Abnormal Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 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

Goldston, D. (2008). Hazy reasoning behind clean air. Nature, 452(7187), 519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Altshuler, J. S., & Altshuler, D. (2004). Organizational challenges in clinical genomic research. Nature, 429(6990), 478–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J., Park, J., & Choi, C. (2014). Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Scientific Reports, 4, 4413.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, G. C., Wang, Q., Li, S. L., Ai, X. G., & Fan, C. G. (2014). Evidence of multi-step nucleation leading to various crystallization pathways from an Fe-O-Al melt. Scientific Reports, 4, 5082.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, R., Fraser-King, G., & Schwaderer, W. D. (2006). Data Lifecycles. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pereira, K. D., & Mitchell, R. B. (Eds.). (2009). Pediatric Otolaryngology for the Clinician. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Duggan, D., & Wu, Y. (2014). Security Correctness for Secure Nested Transactions. In M. Abadi & A. Lluch Lafuente (Eds.), Trustworthy Global Computing: 8th International Symposium, TGC 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 30-31, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 64–79). 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 Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 30). Volunteer Discovers 70,000-Year-Old-Mammoth In Idaho Reservoir. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/volunteer-discovers-70000-year-old-mammoth-idaho-reservoir/

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. (1997). Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (AA-97-30(1)). 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

Domina, N. V. (2009). Gender and culture influences on leadership perceptions [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Kelly, T. by J. (2014, September 19). Boy of Summer. New York Times, MM43.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Altshuler & Altshuler, 2004; Goldston, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Altshuler & Altshuler, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Abnorm. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0021-843X
ISSN (online)	1939-1846
Scope	Clinical Psychology