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

Wright, A. (2002). Art: Imagine space. Nature, 419(6906), 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kampmann, M., & Blobel, G. (2009). Biochemistry. Nascent proteins caught in the act. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5958), 1352–1353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishizawa, N., Setoguchi, H., & Yanagisawa, K. (2013). Structural evolution of calcite at high temperatures: phase V unveiled. Scientific Reports, 3, 2832.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Seres, J., Seres, E., Verhoef, A. J., Tempea, G., Streli, C., Wobrauschek, P., Yakovlev, V., Scrinzi, A., Spielmann, C., & Krausz, F. (2005). Laser technology: source of coherent kiloelectronvolt X-rays. Nature, 433(7026), 596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, K. Q. T. (2015). Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Albers, S., Alt, H., & Näher, S. (Eds.). (2009). Efficient Algorithms: Essays Dedicated to Kurt Mehlhorn on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Vol. 5760). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rountev, A., Sharp, M., & Xu, G. (2008). IDE Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Large Object-Oriented Libraries. In L. Hendren (Ed.), Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 53–68). 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

Davis, J. (2016, August 12). McDonald’s Is Facing Increasing Pressure To Stop Using Meat And Milk From Animals Treated With Antibiotics. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mcdonalds-is-facing-increasing-pressure-to-stop-using-meat-and-milk-from-animals-treated-with-antibiotics/

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. (1993). School-Linked Human Services: A Comprehensive Strategy for Aiding Students at Risk of School Failure (HRD-94-21). 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

Gonzaga Reed, R. R. (2017). The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Pilon, M. (2013, August 27). Long Security Lines Surprise Fans. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kampmann & Blobel, 2009; Wright, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kampmann & Blobel, 2009)
Three authors: (Ishizawa et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Seres et al., 2005)

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