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

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

Cottrell, G. W. (2006). Computer science. New life for neural networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5786), 454–455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyra, W., & Kuchner, M. (2013). Formation of sharp eccentric rings in debris disks with gas but without planets. Nature, 499(7457), 184–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K. L., Abarbanel, H. D. I., & Kristan, W. B., Jr. (2005). Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 896–901.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Paolicelli, R. C., Bolasco, G., Pagani, F., Maggi, L., Scianni, M., Panzanelli, P., Giustetto, M., Ferreira, T. A., Guiducci, E., Dumas, L., Ragozzino, D., & Gross, C. T. (2011). Synaptic pruning by microglia is necessary for normal brain development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1456–1458.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, S. (2013). Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ellmer, K., Klein, A., & Rech, B. (Eds.). (2008). Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide: Basics and Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells (Vol. 104). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Herfort, B., de Albuquerque, J. P., Schelhorn, S.-J., & Zipf, A. (2014). Exploring the Geographical Relations Between Social Media and Flood Phenomena to Improve Situational Awareness. In J. Huerta, S. Schade, & C. Granell (Eds.), Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place (pp. 55–71). 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 Mathematical Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, November 30). No, There Are No Walled Cities On Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-there-are-no-walled-cities-on-mars/

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. (1976). Community Placement of the Mentally Disabled in Michigan] (092277). 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

Kim, G. (2013). Development of a nutrition-based curriculum for farm-to-school programs for the fourth and fifth grades [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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 11). Lugo, Paying No Mind to His Elbow, Earns Dividends. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cottrell, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cottrell, 2006; Lyra & Kuchner, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lyra & Kuchner, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Paolicelli et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Math. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2496
Scope	Applied Mathematics General Psychology