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

Engelman, A. (2007). AIDS/HIV. A reversal of fortune in HIV-1 integration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5833), 1855–1857.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahmed, S., & Hodgkin, J. (2000). MRT-2 checkpoint protein is required for germline immortality and telomere replication in C. elegans. Nature, 403(6766), 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merilä, J., Kruuk, L. E., & Sheldon, B. C. (2001). Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature, 412(6842), 76–79.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Westermann, S., Wang, H.-W., Avila-Sakar, A., Drubin, D. G., Nogales, E., & Barnes, G. (2006). The Dam1 kinetochore ring complex moves processively on depolymerizing microtubule ends. Nature, 440(7083), 565–569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silva Elipe, M. V. (2011). LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Keereman, F., & Szekely, I. (Eds.). (2010). Five Years of an Enlarged EU: A Positive Sum Game. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bastasch, M., & Choy, H. (2006). Combinations of Topoisomerase Inhibitors and Ionizing Radiation. In J. M. Brown, M. P. Mehta, & C. Nieder (Eds.), Multimodal Concepts for Integration of Cytotoxic Drugs (pp. 53–66). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, October 15). Swinging Between Extremes In Giving Scientific Credit Where Credit Is Due. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/swinging-between-extremes-giving-scientific-credit-where-credit-due/

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). K-12 Education: Many Challenges Arise in Educating Students Who Change Schools Frequently (GAO-11-40). 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

Dinh, H. (2013). A study of cell-based genetic algorithms with applications to neural networks [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Bosman, J., Smith, M., & Wines, M. (2017, June 25). Videos of Police Shootings Give Few Easy Answers. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Engelman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed & Hodgkin, 2000; Engelman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ahmed & Hodgkin, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Westermann et al., 2006)

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