How to format your references using the Military Psychology citation style

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

Durrer, R. (2006). Astronomy. Is the mystery of cosmic magnetic fields solved? Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 787–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ware, D. M., & Thomson, R. E. (2005). Bottom-up ecosystem trophic dynamics determine fish production in the Northeast Pacific. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1280–1284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fitch, J. P., Raber, E., & Imbro, D. R. (2003). Technology challenges in responding to biological or chemical attacks in the civilian sector. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5649), 1350–1354.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jacobsen, J., Rodrigues, M. S., Telling, M. T. F., Beraldo, A. L., Santos, S. F., Aldridge, L. P., & Bordallo, H. N. (2013). Nano-scale hydrogen-bond network improves the durability of greener cements. Scientific Reports, 3, 2667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joyner, M. (2009). Integration Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Warwick, D. (2011). Handbook of Thromboprophylaxis (D. Gozzard & D. Perry, Eds.; Second Edition). Springer Healthcare Ltd.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, P. L., Sadler, B. M., Verma, G., & Baras, J. S. (2016). Fingerprinting by Design: Embedding and Authentication. In C. Wang, R. M. Gerdes, Y. Guan, & S. K. Kasera (Eds.), Digital Fingerprinting (pp. 69–88). 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 Military Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 11). How Cats Became Domesticated. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genome-comparison-shows-how-wildcats-became-housecats/

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. (1972). GAO Role in the Evaluation of Federally Funded Education Programs (094553). 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

Domina, N. V. (2009). Gender and culture influences on leadership perceptions [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Nir, S. M., & Barron, J. (2017, July 4). Relief and Trepidation as Ride-Hailing Services Become Legal Across New York. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Durrer, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Durrer, 2006; Ware & Thomson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ware & Thomson, 2005)
Three authors: (Fitch et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Jacobsen et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Military Psychology
Abbreviation	Mil. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0899-5605
ISSN (online)	1532-7876
Scope	General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous)