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

Campbell, G. (2002). Distalization of the Drosophila leg by graded EGF-receptor activity. Nature, 418(6899), 781–785.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thisse, C., & Zon, L. I. (2002). Organogenesis--heart and blood formation from the zebrafish point of view. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5554), 457–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan, N., Fu, Z., & Liu, S. (2014). Extracting climate memory using Fractional Integrated Statistical Model: a new perspective on climate prediction. Scientific reports, 4, 6577.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Foster, J. S., Khodadad, C. L. M., Ahrendt, S. R., & Parrish, M. L. (2013). Impact of simulated microgravity on the normal developmental time line of an animal-bacteria symbiosis. Scientific reports, 3, 1340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McEvily, A. J. (2013). Metal Failures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Händle, F. (Ed.). (2007). Extrusion in Ceramics (1st ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cate, I. P.-T., Krolak-Schwerdt, S., Glock, S., & Markova, M. (2014). Improving Teachers’ Judgments. In S. Krolak-Schwerdt, S. Glock, & M. Böhmer (Eds.), Teachers’ Professional Development: Assessment, Training, and Learning (pp. 45–61). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, July 18). Turtles Evolved Shells To Help Them Dig, Not For Protection. 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. (2009). National Airspace System: Regional Airport Planning Could Help Address Congestion If Plans Were Integrated with FAA and Airport Decision Making (No. GAO-10-120). 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

Cong, M. (2017). A Comparative Analysis of Acculturative Stress Among Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese International Students at a Hispanic Serving University (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Nechepurenko, I. (2017, April 20). Kremlin Group Viewed As a Propaganda Mill. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell 2002; Thisse and Zon 2002).

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

Two authors: (Thisse and Zon 2002)
Three or more authors: (Foster 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

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