How to format your references using the Pratiques psychologiques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pratiques psychologiques. 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

Ruth, T. (2009). Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature, 457(7229), 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappuoli, R., & Aderem, A. (2011). A 2020 vision for vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Nature, 473(7348), 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stutzmann, N., Friend, R. H., & Sirringhaus, H. (2003). Self-aligned, vertical-channel, polymer field-effect transistors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5614), 1881–1884.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

McConnell, J. R., Arthern, R. J., Mosley-Thompson, E., Davis, C. H., Bales, R. C., Thomas, R., Burkhart, J. F., & Kyne, J. D. (2000). Changes in Greenland ice sheet elevation attributed primarily to snow accumulation variability. Nature, 406(6798), 877–879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godula-Jopek, A., Jehle, W., & Wellnitz, J. (2012). Hydrogen Storage Technologies. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Mamon, R. S., & Elliott, R. J. (Eds.). (2014). Hidden Markov Models in Finance: Further Developments and Applications, Volume II (Vol. 209). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Maalel, A., Mejri, L., Hadj-Mabrouk, H., & Ben Ghézala, H. (2014). Towards a Decision Support System for Security Analysis. In C. Hanachi, F. Bénaben, & F. Charoy (Eds.), Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries: First International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2014, Toulouse, France, October 15-17, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 46–56). 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 Pratiques psychologiques.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, August 29). Over 300 Reindeer Struck Dead By Lightning In Norway. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/over-300-reindeer-struck-dead-by-lightning-in-norway/

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. (1996). FCC: Flexible Service Offerings in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services (OGC-96-40). 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

Greenfield, D. (2017). Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, February 13). Indomitable Russell Values One Accolade Above the Rest. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruth, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rappuoli & Aderem, 2011; Ruth, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rappuoli & Aderem, 2011)
Three authors: (Stutzmann et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (McConnell et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pratiques psychologiques
ISSN (print)	1269-1763
Scope	General Psychology