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

McDonough, W. F. (2011). Geochemistry. Meteoritic clues point chromium toward Earth’s core. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1397–1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Misra, A., & Ching, W. Y. (2013). Theoretical nonlinear response of complex single crystal under multi-axial tensile loading. Scientific Reports, 3, 1488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghimire, A., Shafran, E., & Gerton, J. M. (2014). Using a sharp metal tip to control the polarization and direction of emission from a quantum dot. Scientific Reports, 4, 6456.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

How, G. T. S., Pandikumar, A., Ming, H. N., & Ngee, L. H. (2014). Highly exposed {001} facets of titanium dioxide modified with reduced graphene oxide for dopamine sensing. Scientific Reports, 4, 5044.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, M., Moskovic, D., Wong, M., Baig, S., Liu, Z., Lizzio, M., & Voicu, A. (2014). Fixed Income Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Embree, L., & Nenon, T. (Eds.). (2013). Husserl’s Ideen (Vol. 66). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Furman, J. E. (2006). Occupational Regulation. In J. E. Lessenger (Ed.), Agricultural Medicine: A Practical Guide (pp. 35–41). 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 Personnel Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, January 2). Caterpillar uses toxic breath as a defense mechanism. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/caterpillar-uses-toxic-breath-defense-mechanism/

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). Army Deployment: Better Transportation Planning Is Needed (NSIAD-87-138). 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

Best, M. L. (2013). Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, June 9). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Inquiry Into British Council. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDonough, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McDonough, 2011; Misra & Ching, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Misra & Ching, 2013)
Three authors: (Ghimire et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (How et al., 2014)

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