How to format your references using the Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace 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

Kolter, R. (2007). Microbiology. Deadly priming. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 578–579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martí, M. C., & Webb, A. A. R. (2014). Plant science: leaf veins share the time of day. Nature, 515(7527), 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bietenholz, M. F., Bartel, N., & Rupen, M. P. (2004). Discovery of a compact radio component in the center of supernova 1986J. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5679), 1947–1949.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lasorella, A., Stegmüller, J., Guardavaccaro, D., Liu, G., Carro, M. S., Rothschild, G., de la Torre-Ubieta, L., Pagano, M., Bonni, A., & Iavarone, A. (2006). Degradation of Id2 by the anaphase-promoting complex couples cell cycle exit and axonal growth. Nature, 442(7101), 471–474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash, C. E. (2011). The History of Aquaculture. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Shackelford, T. K., & Hansen, R. D. (Eds.). (2015). The Evolution of Sexuality. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Burke, A., Hall, G. R., Yaari, R., Fleisher, A., Dougherty, J., Young, J., Brand, H., & Tariot, P. (2015). Pharmacological Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease. In G. R. Hall, R. Yaari, A. Fleisher, J. Dougherty, J. Young, H. Brand, & P. Tariot (Eds.), Pocket Reference to Alzheimer’s Disease Management (pp. 41–48). Springer Healthcare Ltd.

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 Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 24). Top Scientist Bizarrely Claims Women “Don’t Understand’ Fracking. 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. (1988). ADP Modernization: IRS’ Progress on the Electronic Filing System (IMTEC-88-40). 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

McClenahan, A. (2017). The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Levy, C. J., & Kishkovsky, S. (2008, June 17). Russian Strikes Back at BP’s Chairman, as Oil Dispute Flares Again. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kolter, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kolter, 2007; Martí & Webb, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Martí & Webb, 2014)
Three authors: (Bietenholz et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Lasorella et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Abbreviation	Peace Confl.
ISSN (print)	1078-1919
ISSN (online)	1532-7949
Scope	Political Science and International Relations