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

Capone, D. G. (2006). Microbiology. Ramping up the heat on nitrogenase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1691–1692.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu, E. M., & Cowie, L. L. (2006). High-redshift galaxy populations. Nature, 440(7088), 1145–1150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, B. S., Meijer, G., & Schöllkopf, W. (2011). Quantum reflection of He2 several nanometers above a grating surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6019), 892–894.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ansari, D., Andersson, B., Ohlsson, M., Höglund, P., Andersson, R., & Nilsson, J. (2013). CODUSA--customize optimal donor using simulated annealing in heart transplantation. Scientific Reports, 3, 1922.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen, J., Savolainen, T., & Soininen, J. (2013). Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Price, T. D. (2011). An Introduction to Archaeological Chemistry (J. H. Burton, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Harsoula, M., Contopoulos, G., & Kalapotharakos, C. (2009). Orbital Structure in Barred Galaxies and the Role of Chaos. In G. Contopoulos & P. A. Patsis (Eds.), Chaos in Astronomy: Conference 2007 (pp. 53–61). 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: General.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, June 28). Could Dragons On Westeros Fly? Aeronautical Engineering And Maths Say They Could. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/could-dragons-on-westeros-fly-aeronautical-engineering-and-maths-say-they-could/

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. (2001). Electronic Government: Challenges Must Be Addressed With Effective Leadership and Management (GAO-01-959T). 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

Lee, J. Y. (2008). Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

La GORCE, T. (2017, May 19). He Arrived as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Capone, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Capone, 2006; Hu & Cowie, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hu & Cowie, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ansari et al., 2013)

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