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

Lloyd, K. (2015). MICROBIOLOGY. Beyond known methanogens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259), 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sabel, T., & Zschocher, M. (2013). Transition of refractive index contrast in course of grating growth. Scientific Reports, 3, 2552.

A journal article with 3 authors

Causier, B., Kieffer, M., & Davies, B. (2002). Plant biology. MADS-box genes reach maturity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 275–276.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Becker, C., Wyss, P., Eisenhauer, D., Probst, J., Preidel, V., Hammerschmidt, M., & Burger, S. (2014). 5 × 5 cm² silicon photonic crystal slabs on glass and plastic foil exhibiting broadband absorption and high-intensity near-fields. Scientific Reports, 4, 5886.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stevenson, O. (2008). Neglected Children and Their Families. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Shi, Y. Q. (Ed.). (2006). Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security I (Vol. 4300). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

P.-Vaisband, I., Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A. V., Köse, S., & Friedman, E. G. (2016). Electromigration. In R. Jakushokas, M. Popovich, A. V. Mezhiba, S. Köse, & E. G. Friedman (Eds.), On-Chip Power Delivery and Management (pp. 61–74). Springer International Publishing.

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, May 29). Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded After All. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-may-have-been-warm-blooded-after-all/

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. (2003). Highway Safety: Research Continues on a Variety of Factors That Contribute to Motor Vehicle Crashes (GAO-03-436). 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

Claypool, K. K. (2017). Organizational Success: How the Presence of Happiness in the Workplace Affects Employee Engagement that Leads to Organizational Success [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Sisario, B. (2017, March 20). Ed Sheeran Holds No. 1 as Drake Inches Up. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lloyd, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lloyd, 2015; Sabel & Zschocher, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sabel & Zschocher, 2013)
Three authors: (Causier et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Becker et al., 2014)

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