How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition citation style

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

Tachibana-Konwalski, K. (2015). Cell division: Hold on and let go. Nature, 517(7535), 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde, P. S., & Knudsen, E. I. (2002). The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl’s auditory space map. Nature, 415(6867), 73–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Z., Huang, X., & Lu, H. (2014). Association between red blood cell transfusion and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4340.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liao, J. C., Beal, D. N., Lauder, G. V., & Triantafyllou, M. S. (2003). Fish exploiting vortices decrease muscle activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5650), 1566–1569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartoszyǹski, R., & Niewiadomska-Bugaj, M. (2007). Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Syed, J., Pio, E., Kamran, T., & Zaidi, A. (Eds.). (2016). Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Uteshev, A. Y., & Yashina, M. V. (2016). On Maxwell’s Conjecture for Coulomb Potential Generated by Point Charges. In M. L. Gavrilova & C. J. K. Tan (Eds.), Transactions on Computational Science XXVII (pp. 68–80). 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: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 6). Why Medical Journals Must Make Researchers Share Data From Clinical Trials. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-medical-journals-must-make-researchers-share-data-clinical-trials/

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. (1990). Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services (T-RCED-90-89). 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

Garbarini, L. (2017). Comparison of the Completion Pathways of Four Categories of Doctoral Students from a Midwestern University [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006, June 4). Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times, 14NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tachibana-Konwalski, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hyde & Knudsen, 2002; Tachibana-Konwalski, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hyde & Knudsen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liao et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	0278-7393
ISSN (online)	1939-1285
Scope	Language and Linguistics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language