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

Banks, M. (2007). Seeking a PhD abroad. Nature, 445(7128), 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cook-Andersen, H., & Wilkinson, M. F. (2015). Molecular biology: Splicing does the two-step. Nature, 521(7552), 300–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeon, S.-M., Chandel, N. S., & Hay, N. (2012). AMPK regulates NADPH homeostasis to promote tumour cell survival during energy stress. Nature, 485(7400), 661–665.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Randau, L., Stanley, B. J., Kohlway, A., Mechta, S., Xiong, Y., & Söll, D. (2009). A cytidine deaminase edits C to U in transfer RNAs in Archaea. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5927), 657–659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glaser, R. (2015). Symmetry, Spectroscopy, and Crystallography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lin, C. Y.-Y. (2013). National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa (L. Edvinsson, J. Chen, & T. Beding, Eds.; Vol. 18). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gomes, L. T., de Barros, L. C., & Bede, B. (2015). Fuzzy Differential Equations. In L. C. de Barros & B. Bede (Eds.), Fuzzy Differential Equations in Various Approaches (pp. 69–113). 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 School Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, August 19). Historic Supernova Couldn’t Have Been Seen By Humans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/historic-supernova-couldnt-have-been-seen-by-humans/

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). Information Technology: IRS Needs to Improve the Reliability and Transparency of Reported Investment Information (GAO-14-298). 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

Fernandes, J. M. (2017). Physical and chemical properties of Jupiter’s north and south polar vortex revealed through mid-infrared imaging [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2013, July 28). Putin in Ukraine to Celebrate a Christian Anniversary. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Banks, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Banks, 2007; Cook-Andersen & Wilkinson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cook-Andersen & Wilkinson, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Randau et al., 2009)

About the journal

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