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

Bowie, J. U. (2005). Solving the membrane protein folding problem. Nature, 438(7068), 581–589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milinski, M., & Rockenbach, B. (2007). Economics. Spying on others evolves. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 464–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sleutels, F., Zwart, R., & Barlow, D. P. (2002). The non-coding Air RNA is required for silencing autosomal imprinted genes. Nature, 415(6873), 810–813.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Koehn, E. M., Fleischmann, T., Conrad, J. A., Palfey, B. A., Lesley, S. A., Mathews, I. I., & Kohen, A. (2009). An unusual mechanism of thymidylate biosynthesis in organisms containing the thyX gene. Nature, 458(7240), 919–923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flaus, J.-M. (2013). Risk Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hannun, Y. A., Luberto, C., Mao, C., & Obeid, L. M. (Eds.). (2015). Bioactive Sphingolipids in Cancer Biology and Therapy (1st ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Goethals, M. (2013). Back to Earth: “Common Sense” in the Management of Heart Failure. In J. Bartunek & M. Vanderheyden (Eds.), Translational Approach to Heart Failure (pp. 119–125). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, March 25). Can Light Orbit A Black Hole? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/can-light-orbit-black-hole/

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. (1987). [Comments on Customs Commissioner’s Alleged Unauthorized Use of Government Automobiles] (B-210555.22). 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

Birtler, E. R. (2014). Group therapy and knowledge of neuroplastic principles: The impact of health literacy on client locus of control in a therapy setting [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

Vecsey, G. (2010, April 26). Strides, Often Painful, but Always, Always Forward. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowie, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bowie, 2005; Milinski & Rockenbach, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Milinski & Rockenbach, 2007)
Three authors: (Sleutels et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Koehn et al., 2009)

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)