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

Abbott, A. (2003). Human fatality adds fresh impetus to fight against bird flu. Nature, 423(6935), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sykora, S., & Becker, K. W. (2013). Heavy fermion properties of the Kondo Lattice model. Scientific Reports, 3, 2691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishii, H., Sakurai, Y., & Maruyama, T. (2014). Effect of soccer shoe upper on ball behaviour in curve kicks. Scientific Reports, 4, 6067.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yasuda, S., Oceguera-Yanez, F., Kato, T., Okamoto, M., Yonemura, S., Terada, Y., Ishizaki, T., & Narumiya, S. (2004). Cdc42 and mDia3 regulate microtubule attachment to kinetochores. Nature, 428(6984), 767–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, H., & Steinle, A. (2012). Precast Concrete Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Nikkhah, G., & Pinsker, M. (Eds.). (2013). Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (Vol. 117). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quastel, J., & Remenik, D. (2014). Airy Processes and Variational Problems. In A. F. Ramírez, G. Ben Arous, P. A. Ferrari, C. M. Newman, V. Sidoravicius, & M. E. Vares (Eds.), Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems (pp. 121–171). 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. (2015, April 30). Melting Moments: A Look Under East Antarctica’s Biggest Glacier. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/melting-moments-look-under-east-antarctica-s-biggest-glacier/

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. (1976). The Legislative Focus on Federal ADP Procurement and GAO’s Role (100061). 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

Samel, C. (2014). Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men [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

Feeney, K. (2011, February 27). Sip, Munch and Cheer. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Sykora & Becker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sykora & Becker, 2013)
Three authors: (Ishii et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Yasuda et al., 2004)

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)