How to format your references using the Journal of Psychosocial Studies citation style

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

Chazdon, R.L. (2008) Beyond deforestation: restoring forests and ecosystem services on degraded lands, Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1458–1460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradshaw, G.A. and Finlay, B.L. (2005) Natural symmetry, Nature, 435(7039), 149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner, W.R., Oppenheimer, M. and Wilcove, D.S. (2009) A force to fight global warming, Nature, 462(7271), 278–279.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Byrnes, T., Koyama, S., Yan, K., et al (2013) Neural networks using two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, Scientific reports, 3, 2531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zeng, K., Lou, W. and Li, M. (2011) Multihop Wireless Networks, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gordon, R. and Seckbach, J. (eds.) (2012) The Science of Algal Fuels: Phycology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, X., Wang, C., Shajahan, A.N., et al (2012) “Reconstruction of Transcription Regulatory Networks by Stability-Based Network Component Analysis.”, in Bleris, L., Măndoiu, I., Schwartz, R., et al (eds.), Bioinformatics Research and Applications: 8th International Symposium, ISBRA 2012, Dallas, TX, USA, May 21-23, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp 36–47.

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 Psychosocial Studies.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016) Nine Weird And Wonderful Facts About Death And Funeral Practices, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/nine-weird-and-wonderful-facts-about-death-and-funeral-practices/.

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 (2003) Telecommunications: GSA Needs to Improve Process for Awarding Task Orders for Local Service. GAO-03-369, 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

Mazgaeen, L. (2017) Differential RNAi Approaches to Enhance Knockdown Efficiency of Target Gene Transcripts in the Highly DDT-Resistant 91-R Strain of Drosophila melanogaster, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017) The Matches at Indian Wells Come With a Generous Serving of Opulence, New York Times, 18 March, p SP6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chazdon, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bradshaw and Finlay, 2005; Chazdon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bradshaw and Finlay, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Byrnes et al, 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychosocial Studies
ISSN (online)	1478-6737
Scope