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

Ledford, H. (2007). Cheap at any price? Nature, 447(7141), 131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, R. B., & Huang, W. (2014). Collaboration: Strength in diversity. Nature, 513(7518), 305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang, J. C., Lockner, D. A., & Reches, Z. (2012). Rapid acceleration leads to rapid weakening in earthquake-like laboratory experiments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 101–105.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chou, C.-W., Laurat, J., Deng, H., Choi, K. S., de Riedmatten, H., Felinto, D., & Kimble, H. J. (2007). Functional quantum nodes for entanglement distribution over scalable quantum networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5829), 1316–1320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, W. (2015). Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chin, S. (2011). Pro Android Flash (D. Iverson, O. Campesato, & P. Trani, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Millot, D., & Parrot, C. (2014). Setting up Clusters of Computing Units to Process Several Data Streams Efficiently. In R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, K. Karczewski, & J. Waśniewski (Eds.), Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, PPAM 2013, Warsaw, Poland, September 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp. 49–61). 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

Hamilton, K. (2017, February 14). There Are Six Styles Of Love. Which One Best Describes You? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/there-are-six-styles-of-love-which-one-best-describes-you/

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). Air Traffic Control: Characteristics and Performance of Selected International Air Navigation Service Providers and Lessons Learned from Their Commercialization (GAO-05-769). 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

Wager, L. (2009). Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment: The role of other discipline strategies [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, July 21). Washington Reality Show Stripped of Its Protagonist. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ledford, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman & Huang, 2014; Ledford, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Freeman & Huang, 2014)
Three authors: (Chang et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Chou et al., 2007)

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

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