How to format your references using the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Smil, V. (2000). Horse power. Nature, 405(6783), 125.
A journal article with 2 authors
Core, L. J., & Lis, J. T. (2008). Transcription regulation through promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1791–1792.
A journal article with 3 authors
Brockmann, D., Hufnagel, L., & Geisel, T. (2006). The scaling laws of human travel. Nature, 439(7075), 462–465.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Rambaut, A., Pybus, O. G., Nelson, M. I., Viboud, C., Taubenberger, J. K., & Holmes, E. C. (2008). The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature, 453(7195), 615–619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Arden, J. B., & Linford, L. (2008). Brain-Based Therapy with Adults. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Shi, Y.-Q., Kim, H. J., Pérez-González, F., & Echizen, I. (Eds.). (2016). Digital-Forensics and Watermarking: 14th International Workshop, IWDW 2015, Tokyo, Japan, October 7-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9569). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Munoz, D., Bagnell, J. A., & Hebert, M. (2010). Stacked Hierarchical Labeling. In K. Daniilidis, P. Maragos, & N. Paragios (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part VI (pp. 57–70). Springer.

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 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post
Andrews, R. (2017, March 16). Explosion At Mount Etna Nearly Kills BBC Film Crew. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explosion-mount-etna-nearly-kills-bbc-film-crew/

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. (2009). Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds (GAO-09-174). 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
Snyder, Q. Z. (2010). From anarchy to confederacy: A theory of international politics [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
Hyduk, J. (2017, January 1). A Year That Can Never Be Taken From Cleveland. New York Times, SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Core & Lis, 2008; Smil, 2000).

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

  • Two authors: (Core & Lis, 2008)
  • Three authors: (Brockmann et al., 2006)
  • 6 or more authors: (Rambaut et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
AbbreviationJ. Theor. Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)1068-8471
ISSN (online)2151-3341
ScopePhilosophy
General Psychology

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