How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance citation style

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

Wilczek, F. (2004). From “not wrong” to (maybe right). Nature, 428(6980), 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenamyre, J. T., & Hastings, T. G. (2004). Biomedicine. Parkinson’s--divergent causes, convergent mechanisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5674), 1120–1122.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara, J. M., Barta, Z., & Houston, A. I. (2004). Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Nature, 428(6984), 745–748.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Samatey, F. A., Imada, K., Nagashima, S., Vonderviszt, F., Kumasaka, T., Yamamoto, M., & Namba, K. (2001). Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature, 410(6826), 331–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky, D. (2012). Scriptural Interpretation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Papon, P., Leblond, J., & Meijer, P. H. E. (Eds.). (2006). The Physics of Phase Transitions: Concepts and Applications. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sorek, N., & Yalovsky, S. (2010). Protein–Lipid Modifications and Targeting of ROP/RAC and Heterotrimeric G Proteins. In S. Yalovsky, F. Baluška, & A. Jones (Eds.), Integrated G Proteins Signaling in Plants (pp. 71–90). 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: Human Perception and Performance.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, June 30). What Does “The Dark Side” Of The Moon Look Like? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/shining-light-dark-side-moon/

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. (1988). Aviation Safety: Airlines Should Check Pilot Applicants’ Safety History (RCED-88-154). 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

Kelly, L. A. (2009). Nursing surveillance in the acute care setting: Latent variable development and analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Vecsey, G. (2009, October 31). For Rodriguez, It’s a No-Brainer: Just Play. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Greenamyre & Hastings, 2004; Wilczek, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Greenamyre & Hastings, 2004)
Three authors: (McNamara et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Samatey et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform.
ISSN (print)	0096-1523
ISSN (online)	1939-1277
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology