How to format your references using the New Ideas in Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Ideas 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	Download the output style file
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

Sadoulet, B. (2007). Particle dark matter in the universe: at the brink of discovery? Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 61–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulsen, M., & Boomsma, J. J. (2005). Mutualistic fungi control crop diversity in fungus-growing ants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5710), 741–744.

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou, C., Samzun, A., & Zivie, A. (2004). Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature, 427(6971), 211–212.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Veillet, C., Parker, J. W., Griffin, I., Marsden, B., Doressoundiram, A., Buie, M., Tholen, D. J., Connelley, M., & Holman, M. J. (2002). The binary Kuiper-belt object 1998 WW31. Nature, 416(6882), 711–713.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros, N., Kanaka-Gantenbein, C., Liatis, S., Makrilakis, K., & Tentolouris, N. (2011). Diabetic Emergencies. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gammerman, A., Luo, Z., Vega, J., & Vovk, V. (Eds.). (2016). Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications: 5th International Symposium, COPA 2016, Madrid, Spain, April 20-22, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9653). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Stober, T., & Hansmann, U. (2010). Considerations on Teaming and Leadership. In U. Hansmann (Ed.), Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects (pp. 75–92). 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 New Ideas in Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 21). Does Size Really Matter? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/does-size-really-matter0/

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. (1996). Transportation Enhancements: Status of the $2.4 Billion Authorized for Nonmotorized Transportation (RCED-96-156). 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

Luna, S. C. (2010). An integrated treatment program for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: A grant proposal [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

Marx, L. (2011, May 8). Amanda Pekoe and Christopher Lueck. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sadoulet, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Poulsen & Boomsma, 2005; Sadoulet, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Poulsen & Boomsma, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Veillet et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Ideas in Psychology
Abbreviation	New Ideas Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0732-118X
Scope	General Psychology Psychology (miscellaneous)