How to format your references using the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology citation style

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

Heine, V., V. (2000). Crystal structure. As weird as they come. Nature, 403(6772), 836–837.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benkovic, S. J., & Hammes-Schiffer, S. (2003). A perspective on enzyme catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637), 1196–1202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., Clark, A. C., & Chan, M. H. W. (2007). Probable heat capacity signature of the supersolid transition. Nature, 449(7165), 1025–1028.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eubelen, M., Bostaille, N., Cabochette, P., Gauquier, A., Tebabi, P., Dumitru, A. C., Koehler, M., Gut, P., Alsteens, D., Stainier, D. Y. R., Garcia-Pino, A., & Vanhollebeke, B. (2018). A molecular mechanism for Wnt ligand-specific signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6403).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lipiansky, E. (2012). Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gathen, J. von Z., Imaña, J. L., & Koç, Ç. K. (Eds.). (2008). Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 2nd International Workshop, WAIFI 2008 Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008 Proceedings (Vol. 5130). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jo, H.-S., Yang, J.-D., & Choi, W. (2012). Concept Based Orchestration of Web Services Using XOT. In V. Khachidze, T. Wang, S. Siddiqui, V. Liu, S. Cappuccio, & A. Lim (Eds.), Contemporary Research on E-business Technology and Strategy: International Conference, iCETS 2012, Tianjin, China, August 29-31, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 41–53). 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 Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 6). Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-how-galaxies-formed-possibly-solved-discovery-cosmic-web-feeding-protogalaxy/

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. (2005). Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Is Proceeding with Its Accelerated Systems Initiative but Needs to Address Operational Issues (GAO-05-97). 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

Diddi, V. (2017). Digitally Controlled Microwave Power Amplifier Design Techniques for Wireless Communications [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, June 10). New President for the Long Island Rail Road. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heine, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benkovic & Hammes-Schiffer, 2003; Heine, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Benkovic & Hammes-Schiffer, 2003)
Three authors: (Lin et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Eubelen et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Occup. Organ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0963-1798
ISSN (online)	2044-8325
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology