How to format your references using the Journal of Neuropsychology citation style

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

McNutt, M. (2013). Climate change impacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mokranjac, D., & Neupert, W. (2015). Cell biology: Architecture of a protein entry gate. Nature, 528(7581), 201–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Helle, S., Lummaa, V., & Jokela, J. (2002). Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1085.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gavrilova, O., Marcus-Samuels, B., Leon, L. R., Vinson, C., & Reitman, M. L. (2000). Leptin and diabetes in lipoatrophic mice. Nature, 403(6772), 850; discussion 850-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Illian, J., Penttinen, A., Stoyan, H., & Stoyan, D. (2008). Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ruyter, D. J. de, & Miedema, S. (Eds.). (2011). Moral Education and Development: A Lifetime Commitment. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Kanai, T., Takahashi, E. J., Nabekawa, Y., & Midorikawa, K. (2010). Heterodyne Interferometry Using High-Order Harmonic Generation in Mixed Gases. In K. Yamanouchi, A. Giulietti, & K. Ledingham (Eds.), Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume V (pp. 65–80). 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 Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 29). Lizard Grows Six Tails At Once, Setting A New World Record. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lizard-grows-six-tails-once-setting-new-world-record/

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. (1984). [Better Guidance Would Improve ADP Evaluations in Support of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act of 1982] (No. 125080). 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

Terry, E. J. (2008). In search of leadership: A look at women presidents in Georgia’s two-year colleges and technical colleges [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Baker, L. (2005, December 25). Spurring Urban Growth in Vancouver, One Family at a Time. New York Times, 1111.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (McNutt, 2013; Mokranjac & Neupert, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mokranjac & Neupert, 2015)
Three authors: (Helle et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Gavrilova et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	J. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	1748-6645
ISSN (online)	1748-6653
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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