How to format your references using the Polish Journal of Applied Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polish Journal of Applied 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

Petherick, A. (2015). Science masterclass. Nature, 526(7574), S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hegazy, A. N., & Powrie, F. (2015). MICROBIOME. Microbiota RORgulates intestinal suppressor T cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6251), 929–930.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schall, P., Weitz, D. A., & Spaepen, F. (2007). Structural rearrangements that govern flow in colloidal glasses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5858), 1895–1899.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Balakirev, F. F., Betts, J. B., Migliori, A., Ono, S., Ando, Y., & Boebinger, G. S. (2003). Signature of optimal doping in Hall-effect measurements on a high-temperature superconductor. Nature, 424(6951), 912–915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D. A., van de Waterbeemd, H., & Walker, D. K. (2006). Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ruffert, M. (2011). The Global Administrative Law of Science (S. Steinecke, Ed.; Vol. 228). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen, V.-T., Vu, H., & Tran, T.-H. (2015). An Efficient Combination of RGB and Depth for Background Subtraction. In Q. A. Dang, X. H. Nguyen, H. B. Le, V. H. Nguyen, & V. N. Q. Bao (Eds.), Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam: Post-proceedings of The First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (pp. 49–63). 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 Polish Journal of Applied Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 20). Dazzled By The Bright Southern Lights. 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. (1998). Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas (T-GGD/HEHS-98-94). 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

Bottorff, E. A. (2011). The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, June 21). For a New Mother, It’s a Quick Return to Work. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hegazy & Powrie, 2015; Petherick, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hegazy & Powrie, 2015)
Three authors: (Schall et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Balakirev et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Polish Journal of Applied Psychology
ISSN (print)	1642-1892
Scope