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 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

Gumbsch, P. (2003). Materials science. Modeling strain hardening the hard way. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1857–1858.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The world’s technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6025), 60–65.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, P. J., Harris, S., & Webbon, C. C. (2002). Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature, 419(6902), 34.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cerina, F., Chessa, A., Pammolli, F., & Riccaboni, M. (2014). Network communities within and across borders. Scientific reports, 4, 4546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Recho, N. (2012). Fracture Mechanics and Crack Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schmitz, U., Wolkenhauer, O., & Vera, J. (Eds.). (2013). MicroRNA Cancer Regulation: Advanced Concepts, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Tools (Vol. 774). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Echeverría, R., Cortes, C., Bertelsen, A., Macia, I., Ruiz, Ó. E., & Flórez, J. (2016). Robust CT to US 3D-3D Registration by Using Principal Component Analysis and Kalman Filtering. In T. Vrtovec, J. Yao, B. Glocker, T. Klinder, A. Frangi, G. Zheng, & S. Li (Eds.), Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging: Third International Workshop and Challenge, CSI 2015, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Munich, Germany, October 5, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 52–63). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 9). New Cancer Drugs Are Very Expensive - Here’s How We Work Out Value For Our Money. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-cancer-drugs-are-very-expensive-here-s-how-we-work-out-value-our-money/. 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. (2008). Traffic Safety: NHTSA’s Improved Oversight Could Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Safety in Some States (No. GAO-08-788). 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

Black, A. M. (2006). Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program (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

Gottlieb, S., & Emanuel, E. J. (2013, December 5). No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage. New York Times, p. A35.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gumbsch 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gumbsch 2003; Hilbert and López 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hilbert and López 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cerina et al. 2014)

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