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

Julian, B. (2002). Plate tectonics. Seismological detection of slab metamorphism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1625–1626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas, D. N., & Dieckmann, G. S. (2002). Antarctic Sea ice--a habitat for extremophiles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 641–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gollihar, J., Levy, M., & Ellington, A. D. (2014). Biochemistry. Many paths to the origin of life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6168), 259–260.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dufour, P., Liebert, J., Fontaine, G., & Behara, N. (2007). White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres. Nature, 450(7169), 522–524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R. (2014). Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bordini, R. H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., & Fallah Seghrouchni, A. E. (Eds.). (2005). Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers (Vol. 3346). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oestmo, S., Janssen, M. A., & Marean, C. W. (2016). Testing Brantingham’s Neutral Model: The Effect of Spatial Clustering on Stone Raw Material Procurement. In J. A. Barceló & F. Del Castillo (Eds.), Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds (pp. 175–188). 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

Taub, B. (2016, August 24). Here’s How LSD Messes With Your Ability To Use Language. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-how-lsd-messes-with-your-ability-to-use-language/

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. (1998). FCC: Installment Payment Financing for Personal Communications Services Licensees (OGC-99-3). 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

Uzan, E. (2017). Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers’ Processes of Selection and Integration of Technology [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Crow, K. (2003, March 23). A Block of Fabled Theaters May Get an Extended Run. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Julian, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Julian, 2002; Thomas & Dieckmann, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Thomas & Dieckmann, 2002)
Three authors: (Gollihar et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Dufour et al., 2007)

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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