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

Bayer, M. (2014). Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 158–159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dong, R.-Y., & Cao, B.-Y. (2014). Anomalous orientations of a rigid carbon nanotube in a sheared fluid. Scientific Reports, 4, 6120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng, J., Wang, Y., & Li, C. (2011). Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont. Nature, 472(7342), 181–185.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Treps, N., Grosse, N., Bowen, W. P., Fabre, C., Bachor, H.-A., & Lam, P. K. (2003). A quantum laser pointer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5635), 940–943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pinoli, J.-C. (2014). Mathematical Foundations of Image Processing and Analysis 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brüntje, D., & Gajda, O. (Eds.). (2016). Crowdfunding in Europe: State of the Art in Theory and Practice (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dave, B. (2005). Labyrinthine Digital Histories. In B. Martens & A. Brown (Eds.), Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005 (pp. 53–62). Springer Netherlands.

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, April 9). Ocean “Dead Zones” Are Spreading – And That Spells Disaster For Fish. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ocean-dead-zones-are-spreading-and-spells-disaster-fish/

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. (1976). Consolidation of Computer-Output-Microfilm Facilities in Hawaii (LCD-76-129). 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

Poudel, S. R. (2017). Models and Algorithms to Solve a Reliable and Congested Biomass Supply Chain Network Designing Problem under Uncertainty [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, December 2). Justices to Decide if Citizens May Challenge White House’s Religion-Based Initiative. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bayer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer, 2014; Dong & Cao, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dong & Cao, 2014)
Three authors: (Meng et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Treps et al., 2003)

About the journal

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