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

Haldeman, J. (2000). Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family. Nature, 405(6785), 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valiela, I., & Fox, S. E. (2008). Ecology. Managing coastal wetlands. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5861), 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi, C., Wei, S., & Hendrey, G. (2014). Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration. Scientific Reports, 4, 5472.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mitchell, A., Romano, G. H., Groisman, B., Yona, A., Dekel, E., Kupiec, M., Dahan, O., & Pilpel, Y. (2009). Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature, 460(7252), 220–224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kasper, S., & Montgomery, S. (2013). Treatment-resistant Depression. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Battin-Leclerc, F., Simmie, J. M., & Blurock, E. (Eds.). (2013). Cleaner Combustion: Developing Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vermeulen, F. (2016). Towards a Holistic Archaeological Survey Approach for Ancient Cityscapes. In M. Forte & S. Campana (Eds.), Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing (pp. 91–112). 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 Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, September 27). Watch Live As Elon Musk Reveals His Plan To Colonize Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-elon-musk-reveals-his-plan-to-colonize-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. (1995). Higher Education: Selected Information on Student Financial Aid Received by Legal Immigrants (HEHS-96-7). 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

Otarola, A. C. (2008). The effects of turbulence in an absorbing atmosphere on the propagation of microwave signals used in an active sounding system [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Hartocollis, A., & Moynihan, C. (2014, July 9). Official Says Druggist Stole 200,000 Pills of Oxycodone. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haldeman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Haldeman, 2000; Valiela & Fox, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Valiela & Fox, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Mitchell et al., 2009)

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