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

Edler, J. (2012). Research funding. Toward variable funding for international science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6105), 331–332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe, R., & Noji, H. (2014). Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4962.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatsu, T., Sekiya, T., & Nagata, K. (2013). DNA replication-dependent binding of CTCF plays a critical role in adenovirus genome functions. Scientific Reports, 3, 2187.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, H., Yang, B., Pomerantz, R. J., Zhang, C., Arunachalam, S. C., & Gao, L. (2003). The cytidine deaminase CEM15 induces hypermutation in newly synthesized HIV-1 DNA. Nature, 424(6944), 94–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon, R. (2007). Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cleophas, T. J. (2012). Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies (A. H. Zwinderman, Ed.; 5th ed. 2012). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chesney, M., Gheyssens, J., & Taschini, L. (2013). The Economics of Mitigation Strategies. In J. Gheyssens & L. Taschini (Eds.), Environmental Finance and Investments (pp. 59–92). 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

Fang, J. (2015, October 7). How Leatherback Sea Turtles Keep Their Muscles Warm In Frigid Waters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-leatherback-sea-turtles-keep-their-muscles-warm-frigid-waters/

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). EPA: Final Regulations for Revisions to the Federal Test Procedure for Emissions from Motor Vehicles (OGC-96-42). 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

Kong, W. (2010). The Role of MicroRNA-155 in Human Breast Cancer [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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, November 4). Supreme Court to Revisit Federal Sentencing Issues. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edler, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Edler, 2012; Watanabe & Noji, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Watanabe & Noji, 2014)
Three authors: (Komatsu et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Zhang 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