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

Smith, R. (2000). Making hard light sharper. Nature, 404(6776), 345, 347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry, R., & Mauritzen, C. (2005). Dilution of the northern North Atlantic Ocean in recent decades. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5729), 1772–1774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Panáková, D., Werdich, A. A., & Macrae, C. A. (2010). Wnt11 patterns a myocardial electrical gradient through regulation of the L-type Ca(2+) channel. Nature, 466(7308), 874–878.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dahl, C. D., Rasch, M. J., Tomonaga, M., & Adachi, I. (2013). Developmental processes in face perception. Scientific Reports, 3, 1044.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keegan, K. D. (2008). Biotechnology Valuation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Toldrá, F. (2012). Analytical Tools for Assessing the Chemical Safety of Meat and Poultry (M. Reig, Ed.; Vol. 9). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirai, S., Sakakibara, Y., & Hayakawa, S. (2012). Bathcratch: Touch and Sound-Based DJ Controller Implemented on a Bathtub. In A. Nijholt, T. Romão, & D. Reidsma (Eds.), Advances in Computer Entertainment: 9th International Conference, ACE 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 3-5, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 44–56). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, September 7). Researchers Discover Huge Underground Neolithic “Super-Henge.” IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/huge-underground-super-henge-could-be-britains-biggest-neolithic-monument/

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. (2010). Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes (GAO-10-867). 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

Carpenter, K. J. (2017). The Relationship between School Leadership Practices And School Climate [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2002, January 6). Russian Troops Seal Off Town In Search for Chechen Rebels. New York Times, 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Curry & Mauritzen, 2005; Smith, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Curry & Mauritzen, 2005)
Three authors: (Panáková et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Dahl 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