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

Funder, J. W. (2011). Medicine. The genetics of primary aldosteronism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 685–686.

A journal article with 2 authors

Behar, S. M., & Baehrecke, E. H. (2015). Tuberculosis: Autophagy is not the answer. Nature, 528(7583), 482–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K. L., Abarbanel, H. D. I., & Kristan, W. B., Jr. (2005). Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 896–901.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jevtov, I., Samuelsson, T., Yao, G., Amsterdam, A., & Ribbeck, K. (2014). Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology. Scientific Reports, 4, 6653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rangarao, K. V., & Mallik, R. K. (2006). Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chew, E., Childs, A., & Chuan, C.-H. (Eds.). (2009). Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 38). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nasu, H. (2014). Alfred Schutz and a Hermeneutical Sociology of Knowledge. In M. Staudigl & G. Berguno (Eds.), Schutzian Phenomenology and Hermeneutic Traditions (pp. 55–67). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 18). White Dwarf Seen Before And After It Exploded By Astronomers. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarf-seen-before-and-after-it-exploded-by-astronomers/

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. (1989). Student Athletes: Most Schools Meet Proposed Academic Performance Reporting Requirements (HRD-89-157BR). 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

Breckenridge, C. (2017). Measuring Object and Attribute Salience in 2014 Illinois Gubernatorial Endorsements [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, May 1). Cameras, Action and Even Lights. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Funder, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Behar & Baehrecke, 2015; Funder, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Behar & Baehrecke, 2015)
Three authors: (Briggman et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Jevtov et al., 2014)

About the journal

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