How to format your references using the Journal of Personnel Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Personnel 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

Rokas, A. (2013). Genetics. My oldest sister is a sea walnut? Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1327–1329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Postma, E., & van Noordwijk, A. J. (2005). Gene flow maintains a large genetic difference in clutch size at a small spatial scale. Nature, 433(7021), 65–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoon, S.-J., Yi, S. K., & Lee, Y.-W. (2006). Explaining the color distributions of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5764), 1129–1132.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kuo, Y.-H., Lee, Y. K., Ge, Y., Ren, S., Roth, J. E., Kamins, T. I., Miller, D. A. B., & Harris, J. S. (2005). Strong quantum-confined Stark effect in germanium quantum-well structures on silicon. Nature, 437(7063), 1334–1336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hamad, W. Y. (2017). Cellulose Nanocrystals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cuenca, P., & Orozco-Barbosa, L. (Eds.). (2006). Personal Wireless Communications: IFIP TC6 11th International Conference, PWC 2006, Albacete, Spain, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4217). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Reid, J. K., Cockcroft, D. W., & Davis, B. E. (2009). Nasal and Bronchial Nonallergic Provocation Tests. In R. Pawankar, S. T. Holgate, & L. J. Rosenwasser (Eds.), Allergy Frontiers: Diagnosis and Health Economics (pp. 63–79). Springer Japan.

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 Personnel Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, June 8). What If Several Of The World’s Biggest Food Crops Failed At The Same Time? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1987). Effects of Delays in FAA’s NAS Plan (T-RCED-87-23). 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

Wheeler, J. A. (2012). The Scaling of High Harmonics with Mid-Infrared Driving Fields and a Method for the Spatial Isolation of Individual Subfemtosecond Pulses [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Saslow, L. (2006, August 13). On the Home Lawn, Where Alligators Roam. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rokas, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Postma & van Noordwijk, 2005; Rokas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Postma & van Noordwijk, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kuo et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Personnel Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Pers. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1866-5888
ISSN (online)	2190-5150
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology