How to format your references using the Methods in Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methods in 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	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

van Leeuwen, J.L., 2010. Plant science. Launched at 36,000g. Science 329, 395–396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wuchty, S., Uetz, P., 2014. Protein-protein Interaction Networks of E. coli and S. cerevisiae are similar. Sci. Rep. 4, 7187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacchione, D.A., Pratson, L.F., Ogston, A.S., 2002. The shaping of continental slopes by internal tides. Science 296, 724–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Geim, A.K., Dubonos, S.V., Grigorieva, I.V., IV, Novoselov, K.S., Peeters, F.M., Schweigert, V.A., 2000. Non-quantized penetration of magnetic field in the vortex state of superconductors. Nature 407, 55–57.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2014. MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2014. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Priyadarshan, P.M., Jain, S.M. (Eds.), 2009. Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Forieri, I., Hell, R., 2014. Micronutrient Use Efficiency – Cell Biology of Iron and Its Metabolic Interactions in Plants, in: Hawkesford, M.J., Kopriva, S., De Kok, L.J. (Eds.), Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches, Plant Ecophysiology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 133–152.

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 Methods in Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Can Marijuana Treat Opioid Addiction? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/main-pushes-add-painkiller-addiction-list-conditions-treatable-medical-marijuana/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Highway Funding: Problems With Highway Trust Fund Information Can Affect State Highway Funds (No. RCED/AIMD-00-148). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ndiaye, O., 2010. The Predictability of the Sahelian Climate: Seasonal Sahel Rainfall and Onset over Senegal (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Gurley, G., 2016. Karaoke and Confession. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Leeuwen, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (van Leeuwen, 2010; Wuchty and Uetz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wuchty and Uetz, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Geim et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Methods in Psychology
ISSN (print)	2590-2601
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