How to format your references using the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Personality and Social 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	Download the output style file
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

Chicurel, M. (2002). Putting a name on it. Nature, 419(6908), 755, 757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lovett, B. W., & Benjamin, S. C. (2009). Comment on “Multipartite entanglement among single spins in diamond.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1169; author reply 1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flores, I., Cayuela, M. L., & Blasco, M. A. (2005). Effects of telomerase and telomere length on epidermal stem cell behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1253–1256.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Koren, I., Martins, J. V., Remer, L. A., & Afargan, H. (2008). Smoke invigoration versus inhibition of clouds over the Amazon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5891), 946–949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem, J. M. (2011). Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ćirković Veličković, T. (2014). Food Allergens: Biochemistry and Molecular Nutrition (M. Gavrović-Jankulović, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Heckel, R., & Torrini, P. (2010). Stochastic Modelling and Simulation of Mobile Systems. In G. Engels, C. Lewerentz, W. Schäfer, A. Schürr, & B. Westfechtel (Eds.), Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (pp. 87–101). 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 Personality and Social Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 15). The Rise Of Cognitive Enhancers Is A Mass Social Experiment. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rise-cognitive-enhancers-mass-social-experiment/

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. (2011). Commercial Spectrum: Plans and Actions to Meet Future Needs, Including Continued Use of Auctions (GAO-12-118). 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

Henry, M. E. (2009). A nutrition education program to change college dorm dwellers’ eating patterns [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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. (2006, March 16). Arts, Briefly; Kremlin Museum Grows. New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chicurel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chicurel, 2002; Lovett & Benjamin, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lovett & Benjamin, 2009)
Three authors: (Flores et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Koren et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Pers. Soc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3514
ISSN (online)	1939-1315
Scope	Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science