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

Wilkinson, D. M. (2001). At cross purposes. Nature, 412(6846), 485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Partridge, L., & Gems, D. (2007). Benchmarks for ageing studies. Nature, 450(7167), 165–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murthy, V. R., van Westrenen, W., & Fei, Y. (2003). Experimental evidence that potassium is a substantial radioactive heat source in planetary cores. Nature, 423(6936), 163–165.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roca, A. L., Bar-Gal, G. K., Eizirik, E., Helgen, K. M., Maria, R., Springer, M. S., O’Brien, S. J., & Murphy, W. J. (2004). Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores. Nature, 429(6992), 649–651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chapman, B. R., & Bolen, E. G. (2015). Ecology of North America. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mingos, D. M. P. (Ed.). (2016). The Chemical Bond I: 100 Years Old and Getting Stronger (Vol. 169). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi, J., Kim, B., Kang, O., Baek, S., Shim, Y., & Choi, C. (2016). Multi-modal Transit Station Planning Method Using Discrete Event System Formalism. In S. Y. Ohn & S. D. Chi (Eds.), Model Design and Simulation Analysis: 15th International Conference, AsiaSim 2015, Jeju, Korea, November 4-7, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 49–64). 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 Learning and Cognition.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 5). Man Dies Swimming In The Ocean After Ignoring Post-Tattoo Advice. 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. (1996). Status of Tax Systems Modernization, Tax Delinquencies, and the Potential for Return-Free Filing (T-GGD/AIMD-96-88). 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

Peters, B. (2010). From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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. (2002, April 21). Spit and Polish For an Old Soldier. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilkinson, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Partridge & Gems, 2007; Wilkinson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Partridge & Gems, 2007)
Three authors: (Murthy et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Roca et al., 2004)

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