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

Denrell, J. (2008). Sociology. Indirect social influence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5885), 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

An, S. J., & Almers, W. (2004). Tracking SNARE complex formation in live endocrine cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 1042–1046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson, W. H., Diken, E. G., & Johnson, M. A. (2003). Chemistry. Snapshots of water at work. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 320–321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, H.-H., Chang, C.-C., Shieh, M.-J., Wang, J.-P., Chen, Y.-T., Young, T.-H., & Hung, S.-C. (2013). Hypoxia enhances chondrogenesis and prevents terminal differentiation through PI3K/Akt/FoxO dependent anti-apoptotic effect. Scientific Reports, 3, 2683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, A., & Legeard, B. (2016). Model-Based Testing Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Michailov, M. (Ed.). (2011). Nanophenomena at Surfaces: Fundamentals of Exotic Condensed Matter Properties (Vol. 47). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wimmer, R., Jansen, N., Vorpahl, A., Ábrahám, E., Katoen, J.-P., & Becker, B. (2013). High-Level Counterexamples for Probabilistic Automata. In K. Joshi, M. Siegle, M. Stoelinga, & P. R. D’Argenio (Eds.), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 10th International Conference, QEST 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 27-30, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 39–54). 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 Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, July 22). Study Links Alcohol To Seven Types Of Cancer. 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. (2005). Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2005 Expenditure Plan (GAO-05-774). 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

Cannon, C. A. (2017). Comparison of language arts scores between computerized and teacher differentiation of instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Mills, S. G. (1927, December 25). The Child Again. New York Times, DRAMA-MUSIC FASHION-SCREENX4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Denrell, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (An & Almers, 2004; Denrell, 2008).

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

Two authors: (An & Almers, 2004)
Three authors: (Robertson et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2013)

About the journal

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