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

Reimer, P. J. (2001). Archaeology. A new twist in the radiocarbon tale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5551), 2494–2495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, E., & Jaeger, H. M. (2011). Materials science. Through thick and thin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1230–1231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, M., Frisk, M., & Pennisi, E. (2012). Biomaterials. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6109), 899.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mattsson, J., Wyss, H. M., Fernandez-Nieves, A., Miyazaki, K., Hu, Z., Reichman, D. R., & Weitz, D. A. (2009). Soft colloids make strong glasses. Nature, 462(7269), 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo, J. B., & Lin, S.-C. (2002). Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hansen, L. J. (2011). Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World (J. R. Hoffman, Ed.). Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Onyimadu, O., Nakata, K., Wilson, T., Macken, D., & Liu, K. (2014). Towards Sentiment Analysis on Parliamentary Debates in Hansard. In W. Kim, Y. Ding, & H.-G. Kim (Eds.), Semantic Technology: Third Joint International Conference, JIST 2013, Seoul, South Korea, November 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 48–50). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, June 10). Two Of The World’s Largest Rodents Are On The Run From Toronto Zoo. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2014). NASA: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Assess Long-Term Affordability of Human Exploration Programs (GAO-14-385). 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

Beeler, M. C. (2010). Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, August 19). Another Summer, Same Dark Stage. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reimer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Brown & Jaeger, 2011; Reimer, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Brown & Jaeger, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mattsson et al., 2009)

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