How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kaiser, J. (2005). American Society of Gene Therapy meeting. Retroviral vectors: a double-edged sword. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5729), 1735–1736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huber, C., & Wächtershäuser, G. (2006). alpha-Hydroxy and alpha-amino acids under possible Hadean, volcanic origin-of-life conditions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5799), 630–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, G. Z., Fray, D. J., & Farthing, T. W. (2000). Direct electrochemical reduction of titanium dioxide to titanium in molten calcium chloride. Nature, 407(6802), 361–364.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, E. S., Zhang, K., Nicolas, E., Cam, H. P., Zofall, M., & Grewal, S. I. S. (2008). Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly. Nature, 451(7179), 734–737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar, V., & Petersen, J. A. (2012). Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Meheus, J., & Nickles, T. (Eds.). (2009). Models of Discovery and Creativity (Vol. 3). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dai, F., & Xu, Y. (2013). Approximation on the Sphere. In Y. Xu (Ed.), Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls (pp. 79–103). 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 Social Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 26). Scientists Say We Shouldn’t Resurrect Prehistoric Beasts From Beyond The Grave. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-say-we-shouldnt-resurrect-prehistoric-beasts-from-beyond-the-grave/

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. (2009). Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway Infrastructure Funds and Compliance with the Act’s Requirements (GAO-09-926T). 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

Pratt, P. R. (2009). Analysis of the thermo-mechanical characteristics of the LENS^TM process for steels using the finite element method [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi 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

Cowen, T. (2015, November 6). Affordable, but Not That Egalitarian. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Huber & Wächtershäuser, 2006; Kaiser, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Huber & Wächtershäuser, 2006)
Three authors: (Chen et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1031
Scope	Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science