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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Psychology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Geldner, N. (2014). Botany. Making phloem--a near-death experience. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 875–876.
A journal article with 2 authors
Ezenwa, V. O., & Jolles, A. E. (2015). Epidemiology. Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 175–177.
A journal article with 3 authors
Zhang, M., Atkinson, K. R., & Baughman, R. H. (2004). Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5700), 1358–1361.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Liphardt, J., Onoa, B., Smith, S. B., Tinoco, I., Jr, & Bustamante, C. (2001). Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5517), 733–737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gray, D. R. J. M., & Al-Ani, D. M. Z. (2011). Temporomandibular Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Kelemen, A., Abraham, A., & Liang, Y. (Eds.). (2008). Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics (Vol. 85). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Vinel, A., & Artières, T. (2013). Maximizing Edit Distance Accuracy with Hidden Conditional Random Fields. In R. Wilson, E. Hancock, A. Bors, & W. Smith (Eds.), Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 15th International Conference, CAIP 2013, York, UK, August 27-29, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 45–53). 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 Environmental Psychology.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2016, May 27). Some Humans Migrated Back To Africa 45,000 Years Ago. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-humans-migrated-back-africa-45000-years-ago/

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. (1973). Patrol Frigate (092648). 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
Barrett, C. (2010). Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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
Detrick, B. (2017, April 11). The Flower Shop. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Geldner, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ezenwa & Jolles, 2015; Geldner, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Ezenwa & Jolles, 2015)
  • Three authors: (Zhang et al., 2004)
  • 6 or more authors: (Liphardt et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Environmental Psychology
AbbreviationJ. Environ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)0272-4944
ScopeApplied Psychology
Social Psychology

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