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

Stringer, C. (2014). Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems. Nature, 514(7523), 427–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krieger, M. J. B., & Ross, K. G. (2002). Identification of a major gene regulating complex social behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 328–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sale, J. E., Patel, K. J., & Batista, F. D. (2013). Retrospective. Michael Neuberger (1953-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1335.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hoffmann, D. L., Standish, C. D., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P. B., Milton, J. A., Zilhão, J., Alcolea-González, J. J., Cantalejo-Duarte, P., Collado, H., de Balbín, R., Lorblanchet, M., Ramos-Muñoz, J., Weniger, G.-C., & Pike, A. W. G. (2018). Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 362(6411).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn-Deinstrop, E. (2006). Dünnschicht-Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Wong, L.-J. C. (Ed.). (2013). Mitochondrial Disorders Caused by Nuclear Genes. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brooks, N. (2011). Human Responses to Climatically-driven Landscape Change and Resource Scarcity: Learning from the Past and Planning for the Future. In I. P. Martini & W. Chesworth (Eds.), Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases (pp. 43–66). 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. (2013, October 1). The Science of the Obesity Epidemic. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/science-obesity-epidemic/

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. (1998). Rural Utilities Service: Opportunities to Operate Electricity and Telecommunications Loan Programs More Effectively (RCED-98-42). 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

Ren, W. (2013). The Portrayal of Risk-taking Behaviors in Traffic on the Prime-time Television Series [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Hodara, S. (2013, September 22). Where Medieval Armor Meets the Aquatic. New York Times, WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stringer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Krieger & Ross, 2002; Stringer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Krieger & Ross, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2018)

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