How to format your references using the Journal of School Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of School Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Maquet, P. (2001). The role of sleep in learning and memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1048–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaproth, B. M., & Marone, C. (2013). Slow earthquakes, preseismic velocity changes, and the origin of slow frictional stick-slip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1229–1232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., & Liu, Z. (2014). Response to Comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6216), 1467.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, Q., Tun, H. M., Leung, F. C.-C., & Shah, N. P. (2014). Genomic insights into high exopolysaccharide-producing dairy starter bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275. Scientific Reports, 4, 4974.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng, V. S., & Tong, J. C. (2017). Building Sustainability in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cebulla, M. (Ed.). (2008). Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2007 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 30-31, 2007, Final Reports (Vol. 4906). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeshurun, R. (2013). Middle Paleolithic Prey Choice Inferred from a Natural Pitfall Trap: Rantis Cave, Israel. In J. L. Clark & J. D. Speth (Eds.), Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene (pp. 45–58). Springer Netherlands.

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 School Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 8). Stunning Satellite Images Reveal The Story Of Earth’s Surface Water. 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. (2002). Pipeline Safety and Security: Improved Workforce Planning and Communication Needed (GAO-02-785). 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

Grandon, J. (2015). The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Lowry, M. P. (2015, May 24). Watching Assumptions Walk Out the Door. New York Times, BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maquet, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kaproth & Marone, 2013; Maquet, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kaproth & Marone, 2013)
Three authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of School Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Sch. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-4405
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education