How to format your references using the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Krot, A. N. (2011). Planetary science. Bringing part of an asteroid back home. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1098–1099.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hall, P. S., & Kincaid, C. (2001). Diapiric flow at subduction zones: a recipe for rapid transport. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2472–2475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, C. Y., Shcheglovitov, A., & Dolmetsch, R. (2010). The CRAC channel activator STIM1 binds and inhibits L-type voltage-gated calcium channels. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6000), 101–105.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Matsui, Y., Seki, K., Hibara, A., & Mizoguchi, T. (2013). An estimation of molecular dynamic behaviour in a liquid using core-loss spectroscopy. Scientific reports, 3, 3503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., Fatu, A., & Souchet, D. (2014). Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beckouche, P., Besnard, P., & Pecout, H. (Eds.). (2016). Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carter, M., & Matthews, D. (2012). Configuration Management and Version Control in Earth System Modelling. In G. Riley, R. Budich, & R. Redler (Eds.), Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models (pp. 31–43). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Psycholinguistic Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, February 3). Ceres’ Ice Volcanoes Might Disappear Over Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2016). Student Loans: Oversight of Servicemembers’ Interest Rate Cap Could Be Strengthened (No. GAO-17-4). Washington, DC: 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

Nam, Y.-H. (2008). On Throughput-Reliability-Delay Tradeoffs in Wireless Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Sugin, L. (2016, September 30). An Uncharitable Foundation. New York Times, p. A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krot 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hall and Kincaid 2001; Krot 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hall and Kincaid 2001)
Three or more authors: (Matsui et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Abbreviation	J. Psycholinguist. Res.
ISSN (print)	0090-6905
ISSN (online)	1573-6555
Scope	Language and Linguistics General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language