How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied citation style

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

Fuyuno, I. (2005). Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow. Nature, 438(7070), 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, W. Y., & Sine, S. M. (2005). Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic receptors. Nature, 438(7065), 243–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Körtner, G., Brigham, R. M., & Geiser, F. (2000). Winter torpor in a large bird. Nature, 407(6802), 318.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Forkey, J. N., Quinlan, M. E., Shaw, M. A., Corrie, J. E. T., & Goldman, Y. E. (2003). Three-dimensional structural dynamics of myosin V by single-molecule fluorescence polarization. Nature, 422(6930), 399–404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng, V. S., & Tong, J. C. (2017). Building Sustainability in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marchand, S., Saravane, D., & Gaumond, I. (Eds.). (2014). Mental Health and Pain: Somatic and Psychiatric Components of Pain in Mental Health. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smertenko, A., & Bozhkov, P. (2014). The Life and Death Signalling Underlying Cell Fate Determination During Somatic Embryogenesis. In P. Nick & Z. Opatrny (Eds.), Applied Plant Cell Biology: Cellular Tools and Approaches for Plant Biotechnology (pp. 131–178). 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: Applied.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, March 21). Paris Agreement Will Add $19 Trillion To World Economy If America Sticks With It. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-agreement-add-19-trillion-world-economy-america-sticks/

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. (1979). DOD Automated Systems Security Programs (LCD-79-109). 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

Neil, S. (2012). A turn from the worst: Leadership influences on the successful turnaround of a high-poverty school [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

Shpigel, B. (2017, January 14). Leader of Chiefs’ Special Teams Gives the Humble Punt Its Due. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno, 2005; Lee & Sine, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Sine, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Forkey et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1076-898X
ISSN (online)	1939-2192
Scope	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology