How to format your references using the Nordic Psychology citation style

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

Kelly, K. A. (2004). Atmospheric science. Wind data: a promise in peril. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5660), 962–963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, E., & Chan, M. H. W. (2004). Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase. Nature, 427(6971), 225–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin, J., Yang, X., & Zheng, Y. (2014). Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths. Scientific Reports, 4, 6511.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Poznanski, D., Chornock, R., Nugent, P. E., Bloom, J. S., Filippenko, A. V., Ganeshalingam, M., Leonard, D. C., Li, W., & Thomas, R. C. (2010). An unusually fast-evolving supernova. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 58–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orchin, M., Macomber, R. S., Pinhas, A. R., & Wilson, R. M. (2005). The Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marrón, P. J. (2012). The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects: Definitions and Concepts (D. Minder & S. Karnouskos, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoque, K. A., Ait Mohamed, O., Savaria, Y., & Thibeault, C. (2014). Early Analysis of Soft Error Effects for Aerospace Applications Using Probabilistic Model Checking. In C. Artho & P. C. Ölveczky (Eds.), Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: Second International Workshop, FTSCS 2013, Queenstown, New Zealand, October 29--30, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 54–70). Springer International Publishing.

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 Nordic Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 6). The Color Of This Handbag Has Divided The Internet, Once Again. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). Opportunities to Improve Planning for Solar Energy Research and Development (EMD-77-8). 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

Warren, S. M. (2015). The leadership process: An analysis of follower influence on leader behavior in hospital organizations [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Eligon, J. (2017, June 26). Australia Through American Eyes. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kelly, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kelly, 2004; Kim & Chan, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kim & Chan, 2004)
Three authors: (Yin et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Poznanski et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nordic Psychology
Abbreviation	Nord. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1901-2276
ISSN (online)	1904-0016
Scope	General Psychology