How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. 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

Hardebeck, J. L. (2015). Stress orientations in subduction zones and the strength of subduction megathrust faults. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6253), 1213–1216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, L., & Sigworth, F. J. (2009). Structure of the BK potassium channel in a lipid membrane from electron cryomicroscopy. Nature, 461(7261), 292–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsui, K., Yoshida, H., & Ikuhara, Y. (2014). Nanocrystalline, ultra-degradation-resistant zirconia: its grain boundary nanostructure and nanochemistry. Scientific Reports, 4, 4758.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Aoki, W., Saito, M., Manabe, R.-I., Mori, H., Yamaguchi, Y., & Tamiya, E. (2014). Integrating reductive and synthetic approaches in biology using man-made cell-like compartments. Scientific Reports, 4, 4722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann, R. B., & Lehmann, H. D. (2015). Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Jakushokas, R. (2011). Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors (M. Popovich, A. V. Mezhiba, S. Köse, & E. G. Friedman, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Max, M. D., & Johnson, A. H. (2016). Potential High-Quality Reservoir Sediments in the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone. In A. H. Johnson (Ed.), Exploration and Production of Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate: Critical Factors for Commercialization (pp. 137–155). 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 Learning and Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 29). Completely Blind People Still Able To React To Light. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/completely-blind-people-still-able-react-light/

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. (1990). Aviation: FAA’s Use and Management of Communications Resources (IMTEC-90-8). 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

Quintero, M. C. (2017). Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2006, November 23). Russia Inaugurates Book Prize. It’s Big. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardebeck, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hardebeck, 2015; Wang & Sigworth, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Sigworth, 2009)
Three authors: (Matsui et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Aoki et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Learn. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	2329-8456
ISSN (online)	2329-8464
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology