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

Albarede, F. (2008). A geochemist wonders about the Solar System’s true age. Nature, 454(7206), 807.

A journal article with 2 authors

Antonakis, J., & Dalgas, O. (2009). Predicting elections: child’s play! Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes, S. E., Ieda, J., & Maekawa, S. (2014). Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy and the electric field control of magnetism. Scientific Reports, 4, 4105.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Rhyee, J.-S., Lee, K. H., Lee, S. M., Cho, E., Kim, S. I., Lee, E., Kwon, Y. S., Shim, J. H., & Kotliar, G. (2009). Peierls distortion as a route to high thermoelectric performance in In(4)Se(3-delta) crystals. Nature, 459(7249), 965–968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, F., Klette, R., & Scheibe, K. (2008). Panoramic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mulhall, J. P., Incrocci, L., Goldstein, I., & Rosen, R. (Eds.). (2011). Cancer and Sexual Health. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Sau, T. K., & Goia, D. V. (2012). Biomedical Applications of Gold Nanoparticles. In E. Matijević (Ed.), Fine Particles in Medicine and Pharmacy (pp. 101–145). Springer US.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 29). Watch What Happens When You Dissolve An Antacid In Space. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-astronaut-terry-virts-shows-what-happens-when-you-dissolve-antacid-space/

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. (2013). Transportation Security: TSA Could Strengthen Oversight of Allegations of Employee Misconduct (GAO-13-756T). 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

Clendening, R. J. (2009). A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge [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

Valerian, S. (2013, October 3). For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Albarede, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Albarede, 2008; Antonakis & Dalgas, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Antonakis & Dalgas, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rhyee et al., 2009)

About the journal

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