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

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

Milburn, G. J. (2010). Physics. Quantum measurement and control of single spins in diamond. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1188–1189.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galloway, L. F., & Etterson, J. R. (2007). Transgenerational plasticity is adaptive in the wild. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1134–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, S., Wang, D., & Ruvkun, G. (2004). A conserved siRNA-degrading RNase negatively regulates RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature, 427(6975), 645–649.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Frisch, U., Matarrese, S., Mohayaee, R., & Sobolevski, A. (2002). A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the universe by optimal mass transportation. Nature, 417(6886), 260–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bates, J., Gallon, C., Bocci, M., Walker, S., & Taylor, T. (2006). Converged Multimedia Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kotzé, P., Wong, W., Jorge, J., Dix, A., & Silva, P. A. (Eds.). (2009). Creativity and HCI: From Experience to Design in Education (Vol. 289). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Weyh, A. (2006). What Characterizes Successful Start-Up Cohorts? In M. Fritsch & J. Schmude (Eds.), Entrepreneurship in the Region (pp. 61–74). Springer US.

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: General.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 12). 170-Million-Year-Old Fossil Of Previously Unknown Marine Reptile Found In Scotland. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/170-million-year-old-fossil-previously-unknown-marine-reptile-found-scotland/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Progress Made at Department of Labor, But Key Systems at Risk (T-AIMD-98-303). 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

Romano, T. A. (2014). Time-frequency classification of gamma oscillatory activity in the frontoparietal system during working memory [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Hubbard, B. (2016, December 2). Doctor-Turned-Artist Reveals Holy City’s Hidden Side. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Milburn, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Galloway & Etterson, 2007; Milburn, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Galloway & Etterson, 2007)
Three authors: (Kennedy et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Frisch et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Gen.
ISSN (print)	0096-3445
ISSN (online)	1939-2222
Scope	Developmental Neuroscience General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology