How to format your references using the Journal of Psychophysiology citation style

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

Turner, J. A. (2004). Sustainable hydrogen production. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 972–974.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohta, A., & Sitkovsky, M. (2001). Role of G-protein-coupled adenosine receptors in downregulation of inflammation and protection from tissue damage. Nature, 414(6866), 916–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rudolph, M. L., Lekić, V., & Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. (2015). Viscosity jump in Earth’s mid-mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6266), 1349–1352.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yeh, A., Soh, Y.-A., Brooke, J., Aeppli, G., Rosenbaum, T. F., & Hayden, S. M. (2002). Quantum phase transition in a common metal. Nature, 419(6906), 459–462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Danby, F. W. (2014). Acne. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Essig, M., Hülsmann, M., Kern, E.-M., & Klein-Schmeink, S. (Eds.). (2013). Supply Chain Safety Management: Security and Robustness in Logistics. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Michele, L. (2016). Sleep and Dreams in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology. In A. Roncella & C. Pristipino (Eds.), Psychotherapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: An Evidence-based Clinical Approach (pp. 73–82). 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 Psychophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 20). Tarantula Molting: Surprisingly Not Terrifying. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantula-molting-surprisingly-not-terrifying/

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. (1978). Need for Full Cost Reporting and Participating Agreement on SEASAT-A Project (PSAD-78-76). 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

Vento-Wilson, M. (2012). The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, July 22). The Pokemon Go of the 1930s: Excuse Me, I Need to Find a Monkey and Head to the Waldorf. New York Times, C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ohta & Sitkovsky, 2001; Turner, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ohta & Sitkovsky, 2001)
Three authors: (Rudolph et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Yeh et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Psychophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0269-8803
ISSN (online)	2151-2124
Scope	Physiology General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology