How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Tippmann, S. (2015). Programming tools: Adventures with R. Nature, 517(7532), 109–110.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell, A. C., & Felsenfeld, G. (2000). Methylation of a CTCF-dependent boundary controls imprinted expression of the Igf2 gene. Nature, 405(6785), 482–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor, B., Gardet, A., & Xavier, R. J. (2011). Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature, 474(7351), 307–317.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lang, S. B., Tofail, S. A. M., Kholkin, A. L., Wojtaś, M., Gregor, M., Gandhi, A. A., Wang, Y., Bauer, S., Krause, M., & Plecenik, A. (2013). Ferroelectric polarization in nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite thin films on silicon. Scientific Reports, 3, 2215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benatar, D. (2012). The Second Sexism. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Dietert, R. R., & Luebke, R. W. (Eds.). (2012). Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Hofer, T. S. (2015). Probing Proton Transfer Reactions in Molecular Dynamics—A Crucial Prerequisite for QM/MM Simulations Using Dissociative Models. In J.-L. Rivail, M. Ruiz-Lopez, & X. Assfeld (Eds.), Quantum Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems (pp. 115–134). 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 Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, January 11). Shared Culture May Be Altering DNA, With Implications For Health. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/shared-culture-may-be-altering-dna-with-implications-for-health/

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. (2015). Special Education: More Flexible Spending Requirement Could Mitigate Unintended Consequences While Protecting Services (GAO-16-2). 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

Cline, D. (2012). Criminal faces: Clinical experiences of forensic artists [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, July 6). Film Series. New York Times, C20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tippmann, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bell & Felsenfeld, 2000; Tippmann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bell & Felsenfeld, 2000)
Three authors: (Khor et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Lang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
ISSN (print)	0097-7403
ISSN (online)	1939-2184
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