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

Sarewitz, D. (2010). World view: Politicize me. Nature, 467(7311), 26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox, E., & Bonner, J. (2001). Ecology. The advantages of togetherness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5516), 448–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, J. L. W., Strumillo, J., & Zimmer, J. (2013). Crystallographic snapshot of cellulose synthesis and membrane translocation. Nature, 493(7431), 181–186.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yoon, J. W., Choi, Y., Hahn, C., Kim, G., Song, S. H., Yang, K.-Y., Lee, J. Y., Kim, Y., Lee, C. S., Shin, J. K., Lee, H.-S., & Berini, P. (2018). Time-asymmetric loop around an exceptional point over the full optical communications band. Nature, 562(7725), 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, & Withers LLP. (2009). From Innovation to Cash Flows. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schwenker, B. (2009). Management Between Strategy and Finance (K. Spremann, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Samson, M., & Langevin, L. (2016). Le rayonnement des droits de la personne en droit privé québécois: Que de chemin parcouru… mais que de chemin à parcourir! In V. Trstenjak & P. Weingerl (Eds.), The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law (pp. 143–186). 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 Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, July 15). Transit Of Venus Reveals Composition Of Its Atmosphere. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/transit-venus-reveals-composition-its-atmosphere/

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. (2006). Transportation Security: DHS Should Address Key Challenges before Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program (GAO-06-982). 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

Moretto, L. (2012). Exploring the Nature of the Relationship Between Decision-Driven Scenarios and Decision Confidence in High-Velocity Environments [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

Kirk, S. (1942, March 3). Pin Hoarders Active. New York Times, BOOKS22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cox & Bonner, 2001; Sarewitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cox & Bonner, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yoon et al., 2018)

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