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

Gursky, H. (2002). X-ray astronomy-40 years on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1485–1486.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt, J. D., & Moon, R. T. (2013). Cell biology. Making a point with Wnt signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6126), 1388–1389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pauluis, O., Czaja, A., & Korty, R. (2008). The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1075–1078.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, X., Kellner, A. W. A., Jiang, S., Cheng, X., Wang, Q., Ma, Y., Paidoula, Y., Rodrigues, T., Chen, H., Sayão, J. M., Li, N., Zhang, J., Bantim, R. A. M., Meng, X., Zhang, X., Qiu, R., & Zhou, Z. (2017). Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6367), 1197–1201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, T. R. (2010). Genetics for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Hancock, E. R., Wilson, R. C., Windeatt, T., Ulusoy, I., & Escolano, F. (Eds.). (2010). Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR&SPR 2010, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6218). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Feng, P., Ju, T., & Warren, J. (2010). Piecewise Tri-linear Contouring for Multi-material Volumes. In B. Mourrain, S. Schaefer, & G. Xu (Eds.), Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing: 6th International Conference, GMP 2010, Castro Urdiales, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 43–56). 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 Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 15). 10 Incredible Chemical Reaction GIFs Explained. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/10-chemical-reaction-gifs-will-amaze-you/

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. (1983). NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California (AFMD-83-40). 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

Tabano, J. G. (2013). How Former Division I Student-Athletes Experienced Their Dual Undergraduate Roles: The Internal Competition for an Identity [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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, May 18). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: More Delay In Final Verdict For Tycoon. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gursky, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Berndt & Moon, 2013; Gursky, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Berndt & Moon, 2013)
Three authors: (Pauluis et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2017)

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