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

Caron, S. J. C. (2013). Eppendorf. Brains don’t play dice--or do they? Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6158), 574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chien, P., & Weissman, J. S. (2001). Conformational diversity in a yeast prion dictates its seeding specificity. Nature, 410(6825), 223–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Häkkinen, S., Rhines, P. B., & Worthen, D. L. (2011). Atmospheric blocking and Atlantic multidecadal ocean variability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 655–659.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ci, T., Chen, L., Yu, L., & Ding, J. (2014). Tumor regression achieved by encapsulating a moderately soluble drug into a polymeric thermogel. Scientific Reports, 4, 5473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker, G., & Thomson, D. (2006). Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jurga, S., Erdmann (Deceased), V. A., & Barciszewski, J. (Eds.). (2016). Modified Nucleic Acids in Biology and Medicine. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pearce, E. J. (2016). Th2 Cell Responses in Immunity and Inflammation Following Helminth Infection. In W. C. Gause & D. Artis (Eds.), The Th2 Type Immune Response in Health and Disease: From Host Defense and Allergy to Metabolic Homeostasis and Beyond (pp. 53–72). 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 Applied Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 30). April Fools’ Day Comet To Swing By Earth This Weekend. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/april-fools-day-comet-to-swing-by-earth-this-weekend/

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. (1994). Air Force F-22 Embedded Computers (AIMD-94-177R). 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

Watkins, J. J. (2017). Victor Echo Tango (VET) Support Services Inc [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

MacFARQUHAR, N. (2015, January 28). Russian Movie Gets Applause in Hollywood but Scorn at Home. 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 (Caron, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Caron, 2013; Chien & Weissman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Chien & Weissman, 2001)
Three authors: (Häkkinen et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Ci et al., 2014)

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

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