How to format your references using the Journal of Latina/o Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Latina/o 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	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

Shubin, N. (2012). Farish A. Jenkins Jr (1940-2012). Nature, 492(7427), 42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malone, J. H., & Michalak, P. (2008). Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5859), 59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Menz, M. H. M., Dixon, K. W., & Hobbs, R. J. (2013). Ecology. Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6119), 526–527.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Forbes, D. A., Beasley, M. A., Bekki, K., Brodie, J. P., & Strader, J. (2003). Galaxy disruption in a halo of dark matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637), 1217–1219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fisk, P. (2013). Chemical Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kramer, A., Kibaroglu, A., & Scheumann, W. (Eds.). (2011). Turkey’s Water Policy: National Frameworks and International Cooperation. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bigand, E., & Delbé, C. (2010). Introducing implicit learning: from the laboratory to the real life. In E. Bigand (Ed.), Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine: New technologies induce new learning strategies (pp. 95–110). 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 Latina/o Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 18). Only 25 Hainan Gibbons Remain – What Next for the World’s Rarest Primate? 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. (2016). Emergency Communications: Improved Procurement of Land Mobile Radios Could Enhance Interoperability and Cut Costs (GAO-17-12). 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

Redcay, J. D. (2014). Kindergarten students’ reading performance and perceptions of Ludus Reading: A mixed-method study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Gorman, J. (2016, August 30). For Dogs, It’s What You Say and Also How You Say It. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shubin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Malone & Michalak, 2008; Shubin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Malone & Michalak, 2008)
Three authors: (Menz et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Forbes et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Latina/o Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Lat. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2168-1678
ISSN (online)	2163-0070
Scope