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

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

Fisher, K. (2000). BIOMEDICINE: “Glue Grant” Boosts Cell Signaling Consortium. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5486), 1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vokrouhlicky, D., & Farinella, P. (2000). Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies. Nature, 407(6804), 606–608.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., Rollo, A., & Tittensor, D. P. (2013). Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6143), 237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Frey, G. D., Lavallo, V., Donnadieu, B., Schoeller, W. W., & Bertrand, G. (2007). Facile splitting of hydrogen and ammonia by nucleophilic activation at a single carbon center. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5823), 439–441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matte, G. S. (2015). Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kluve, J. (2007). Active Labor Market Policies in Europe: Performance and Perspectives (D. Card, M. Fertig, M. Góra, L. Jacobi, P. Jensen, R. Leetmaa, L. Nima, E. Patacchini, S. Schaffner, C. M. Schmidt, B. van der Klaauw, & A. Weber, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Prasek, D. (2015). EBRD Environmental and Social Governance Standards and Their Impact on the Market. In K. Wendt (Ed.), Responsible Investment Banking: Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards (pp. 71–79). 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 Comparative Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 31). This Time-Lapse Of Cell Division In A Tadpole Egg Is Apparently Real. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1976). Delegation of GSA Procurement Authority for Automatic Data Processing Equipment Acquisitions (B-115369). 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

Matos, G. (2013). Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, August 19). T’s Not Crossed in Community College Tuition. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisher, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fisher, 2000; Vokrouhlicky & Farinella, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Vokrouhlicky & Farinella, 2000)
Three authors: (Mora et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Frey et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0735-7036
ISSN (online)	1939-2087
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Psychology (miscellaneous)