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

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

Cave, R. J. (2009). Chemistry. Inducing chirality with circularly polarized light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1435–1436.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plous, S., & Herzog, H. (2001). Animal research. Reliability of protocol reviews for animal research. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 608–609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schibler, J., Elsner, J., & Schlumbaum, A. (2014). Incorporation of aurochs into a cattle herd in Neolithic Europe: single event or breeding? Scientific Reports, 4, 5798.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liao, J. C., Beal, D. N., Lauder, G. V., & Triantafyllou, M. S. (2003). Fish exploiting vortices decrease muscle activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5650), 1566–1569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansons, A. M., & Davis, H. (2008). Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Cerro, L. F. del, Herzig, A., & Mengin, J. (Eds.). (2012). Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 13th European Conference, JELIA 2012, Toulouse, France, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7519). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hug, D., & Reitzner, M. (2016). Introduction to Stochastic Geometry. In G. Peccati & M. Reitzner (Eds.), Stochastic Analysis for Poisson Point Processes: Malliavin Calculus, Wiener-Itô Chaos Expansions and Stochastic Geometry (pp. 145–184). 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 Applied Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 29). In A Bid For The Perfect Profile Pic, Young Men Are Increasingly Turning To Drugs. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/in-a-bid-for-the-perfect-profile-pic-young-men-are-increasingly-turning-to-steroids/

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. (1978). Problems and Outlook of Small Private Liberal Arts Colleges (HRD-78-91). 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

Lee, S. (2013). Control-display alignment modulates dimensional salience [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gordon, M. R., & Simons, M. (2017, July 19). War Crimes Office May Be Shuttered As Tillerson Reorganizes State Dept. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cave, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cave, 2009; Plous & Herzog, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Plous & Herzog, 2001)
Three authors: (Schibler et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Liao et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0021-9010
ISSN (online)	1939-1854
Scope	Applied Psychology