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

Zaanen, J. (2009). Journal club. A theoretical physicist journeys to a hairy black hole’s horizon. Nature, 462(7269), 15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clapham, P. R., & Lu, S. (2011). Vaccinology: precisely tuned antibodies nab HIV. Nature, 477(7365), 416–417.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, W., Kinloch, I. A., & Windle, A. H. (2003). Nematic liquid crystallinity of multiwall carbon nanotubes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5649), 1363.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, A.-H., Scapa, E. F., Cohen, D. E., & Glimcher, L. H. (2008). Regulation of hepatic lipogenesis by the transcription factor XBP1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1492–1496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, P. E., Jr. (2005). Fiber to the Home. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D’hooghe, M., & Ha, H.-J. (Eds.). (2016). Synthesis of 4- to 7-membered Heterocycles by Ring Expansion: Aza-, oxa- and thiaheterocyclic small-ring systems (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 41). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdualrazak, B., Malik, Y., & Yang, H.-I. (2010). A Taxonomy Driven Approach towards Evaluating Pervasive Computing System. In Y. Lee, Z. Z. Bien, M. Mokhtari, J. T. Kim, M. Park, J. Kim, H. Lee, & I. Khalil (Eds.), Aging Friendly Technology for Health and Independence: 8th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2010, Seoul, Korea, June 22-24, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 32–42). 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 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 25). Plants Use Quantum Mechanics To Make Photosynthesis More Efficient. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-use-quantum-mechanics-to-make-photosynthesis-more-efficient/

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. (1971). Need To Strengthen Management Control Over the Basic Research Program Administered by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (B-170801). 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

Chavez, J. A. (2015). Principal stress analysis of rock fracture data from the Long Beach oil field, Los Angeles basin, California [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

Kelly, S. (2003, March 9). CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times, 724.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham & Lu, 2011; Zaanen, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Clapham & Lu, 2011)
Three authors: (Song et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2008)

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