How to format your references using the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics. 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

Triplett, W. (2000). NASA pins hopes on bigger, costlier mission to Mars. Nature, 406(6797), 666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurita, R., & Tanaka, H. (2004). Critical-like phenomena associated with liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 845–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shekhawat, G., Tark, S.-H., & Dravid, V. P. (2006). MOSFET-Embedded microcantilevers for measuring deflection in biomolecular sensors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5767), 1592–1595.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pinkett, H. W., Lee, A. T., Lum, P., Locher, K. P., & Rees, D. C. (2007). An inward-facing conformation of a putative metal-chelate-type ABC transporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 373–377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener, E. (2003). Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lam, W. H. K., Wong, S. C., & Lo, H. K. (Eds.). (2009). Transportation and Traffic Theory 2009: Golden Jubilee: Papers selected for presentation at ISTTT18, a peer reviewed series since 1959. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cho, J., Pak, J. S., & Kim, J. (2014). Noise Coupling and Shielding in 3D ICs. In M. Lee, J. S. Pak, & J. Kim (Eds.), Electrical Design of Through Silicon Via (pp. 115–146). Springer Netherlands.

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 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, April 28). Disease Evolution: Our Long History Of Fighting Viruses. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disease-evolution-our-long-history-fighting-viruses/

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. (1987). Maritime Administration: Efforts To Improve Data on the Federal Ship Financing Program (RCED-87-58). 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

Le, J. T. (2013). Support group for women who experience perinatal loss: A grant proposal [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

Feeney, K. (2009, May 10). Soul Food With a Secret. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kurita & Tanaka, 2004; Triplett, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kurita & Tanaka, 2004)
Three authors: (Shekhawat et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Pinkett et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Psychol. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1937-321X
ISSN (online)	2151-318X
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Applied Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology