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

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

Bader, J. (2014). Climate science: The origin of regional Arctic warming. Nature, 509(7499), 167–168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mas-Ballesté, R., & Que, L., Jr. (2006). Chemistry. Targeting specific C-H bonds for oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1885–1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moran, N. A., McLaughlin, H. J., & Sorek, R. (2009). The dynamics and time scale of ongoing genomic erosion in symbiotic bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5912), 379–382.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fryer, J. D., Yu, P., Kang, H., Mandel-Brehm, C., Carter, A. N., Crespo-Barreto, J., Gao, Y., Flora, A., Shaw, C., Orr, H. T., & Zoghbi, H. Y. (2011). Exercise and genetic rescue of SCA1 via the transcriptional repressor Capicua. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 690–693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balakrishnan, N., & Koutras, M. V. (2001). Runs and Scans with Applications: Balakrishnan/Runs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vovk, V. (2005). Algorithmic Learning in a Random World (A. Gammerman & G. Shafer, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cerasa, A., Torti, F., & Perrotta, D. (2016). Heteroscedasticity, Multiple Populations and Outliers in Trade Data. In T. Di Battista, E. Moreno, & W. Racugno (Eds.), Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference (pp. 43–50). 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 Experimental Child Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014, September 10). Watch A Man Climb Into An Active Volcano. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/video-man-climbs-active-volcano/

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. (1974). Efforts To Stop Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Coming From and Through Mexico and Central America (GGD-75-44). 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

Ray, S. E. (2012). Impact of Training Intervention on Emotional Intelligence in Health Care Administrators and Physician Leaders [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, March 25). A Fly on the Wall In the Inner Sanctum Of American Soccer. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bader, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bader, 2014; Mas-Ballesté & Que, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mas-Ballesté & Que, 2006)
Three authors: (Moran et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Fryer et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Child Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0965
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology