How to format your references using the Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. 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

Stafford, N. (2006). Angling saxons. Nature, 441(7096), 931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rajsbaum, R., & García-Sastre, A. (2014). Virology. Unanchored ubiquitin in virus uncoating. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6208), 427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, J., Ji, C., & Zhang, J. Z. H. (2013). Unveiling the gating mechanism of ECF transporter RibU. Scientific Reports, 3, 3566.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Davis, M. A., Chew, M. K., Hobbs, R. J., Lugo, A. E., Ewel, J. J., Vermeij, G. J., Brown, J. H., Rosenzweig, M. L., Gardener, M. R., Carroll, S. P., Thompson, K., Pickett, S. T. A., Stromberg, J. C., Del Tredici, P., Suding, K. N., Ehrenfeld, J. G., Grime, J. P., Mascaro, J., & Briggs, J. C. (2011). Don’t judge species on their origins. Nature, 474(7350), 153–154.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, E., & Noppe-Brandon, S. (2011). Imagination First. Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Xiao, T., Zhang, L., & Ma, S. (Eds.). (2012). System Simulation and Scientific Computing: International Conference, ICSC 2012, Shanghai, China, October 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 327). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tang, H., & Li, Z.-L. (2014). Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Thermal Infrared Data. In Z.-L. Li (Ed.), Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared: Theory and Applications (pp. 93–143). 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 Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, February 14). World’s Rarest Boa Seen For The First Time In Over 60 Years. 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. (1980). Community-Based Correctional Programs Can Do More To Help Offenders (GGD-80-25). 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

Weber, T. R. (2010). Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, May 17). Revealing What You May Not Care to Tell. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rajsbaum & García-Sastre, 2014; Stafford, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Rajsbaum & García-Sastre, 2014)
Three authors: (Song et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Davis et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Media Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1864-1105
ISSN (online)	2151-2388
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology Communication