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

DeLong, E. F. (2009). The microbial ocean from genomes to biomes. Nature, 459(7244), 200–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Touma, J. R., & Sridhar, S. (2015). The disruption of multiplanet systems through resonance with a binary orbit. Nature, 524(7566), 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, K. V., Brodie, E. D., Jr, & Brodie, E. D., 3rd. (2004). How the horned lizard got its horns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5667), 65.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bellamy, P. H., Loveland, P. J., Bradley, R. I., Lark, R. M., & Kirk, G. J. D. (2005). Carbon losses from all soils across England and Wales 1978-2003. Nature, 437(7056), 245–248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A. (2013). Voice Over LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Trail, I. A., & Fleming, A. N. M. (Eds.). (2015). Disorders of the Hand: Volume 2: Hand Reconstruction and Nerve Compression. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vaidyanathan, S. (2016). A Novel 4-D Hyperchaotic Thermal Convection System and Its Adaptive Control. In A. T. Azar & S. Vaidyanathan (Eds.), Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control (pp. 75–100). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 25). Plants Use Quantum Mechanics To Make Photosynthesis More Efficient. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-use-quantum-mechanics-to-make-photosynthesis-more-efficient/

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. (2005). Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust (GAO-05-155). 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

Wood, R. D. (2010). Correlation of conductor leadership style, musician employment status, organizational participation to orchestra musician job satisfaction [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Barnard, A., & Kirkpatrick, D. D. (2017, June 5). 5 Arab Nations Put U.S. in Jam As They Move to Isolate Qatar. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeLong, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (DeLong, 2009; Touma & Sridhar, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Touma & Sridhar, 2015)
Three authors: (Young et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Bellamy et al., 2005)

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