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

Edwards, P. P. (2011). Chemistry. Electrons in cement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6038), 49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerszten, R. E., & Wang, T. J. (2008). The search for new cardiovascular biomarkers. Nature, 451(7181), 949–952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt, M. W., Vautravers, M. J., & Spero, H. J. (2006). Rapid subtropical North Atlantic salinity oscillations across Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Nature, 443(7111), 561–564.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Stallard, T., Miller, S., Melin, H., Lystrup, M., Cowley, S. W. H., Bunce, E. J., Achilleos, N., & Dougherty, M. (2008). Jovian-like aurorae on Saturn. Nature, 453(7198), 1083–1085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gladon, R. J., Graves, W. R., & Kelly, J. M. (2011). Getting Published in the Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Verschakelen, J. A. (2007). Computed Tomography of the Lung: A Pattern Approach (W. D. Wever, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cano, E. L., Moguerza, J. M., & Corcoba, M. P. (2015). R and the ISO Standards for Quality Control. In J. Martinez Moguerza & M. Prieto (Eds.), Quality Control with R: An ISO Standards Approach (pp. 119–142). 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

Fang, J. (2015, June 2). Shell Fossils Suggest Our Prehistoric Ancestors Brought Tools to Europe Via the Near East. 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. (1994). NTSB Access-to-Aircraft Privileges (OSI-95-12R). 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

Hawkins, J. T. (2017). A Private Solution to a Public Problem: Managing Hydraulic Fracturing Risks by Enhancing Private Governance through Mandatory Insurance Requirements [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, September 21). Funny, but Not Funny Enough for The New Yorker. New York Times, C17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edwards, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Edwards, 2011; Gerszten & Wang, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gerszten & Wang, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Stallard et al., 2008)

About the journal

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