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

Ekeland, I., I. (2000). Mathematics. Curves and numbers. Nature, 405(6788), 748–749.

A journal article with 2 authors

Umeda, H., & Nomoto, K. (2003). First-generation black-hole-forming supernovae and the metal abundance pattern of a very iron-poor star. Nature, 422(6934), 871–873.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wahl, E. R., Ritson, D. M., & Ammann, C. M. (2006). Comment on “Reconstructing past climate from noisy data.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 529; author reply 529.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ourjoumtsev, A., Tualle-Brouri, R., Laurat, J., & Grangier, P. (2006). Generating optical Schrödinger kittens for quantum information processing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5770), 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blundell, A., Harrison, R., & Turney, B. (2010). The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Khalbuss, W. E., & Means, M. (Eds.). (2013). Gynecological and Breast Cytopathology Board Review and Self-Assessment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur, R., & Samuels, W. B. (2011). Drinking Water Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection. In R. M. Clark, S. Hakim, & A. Ostfeld (Eds.), Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection (pp. 65–85). 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. (2016, May 9). The Greatest Taboo? The Surprising Truth Of What The Bible Says About Incest. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). Transportation Infrastructure: Better Data Needed to Rate the Nation’s Highway Conditions (RCED-99-264). 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

Pecue, C. J. (2015). Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants [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

Cowen, T. (2014, September 13). Gauging the Gender Gap, Present and Future. New York Times, BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ekeland, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ekeland, 2000; Umeda & Nomoto, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Umeda & Nomoto, 2003)
Three authors: (Wahl et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Ourjoumtsev et al., 2006)

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

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