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

Medzhitov, R. (2008). Origin and physiological roles of inflammation. Nature, 454(7203), 428–435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zarin, D. A., & Tse, T. (2008). Medicine. Moving toward transparency of clinical trials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1340–1342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arakawa, H., Hauschild, J., & Buerstedde, J.-M. (2002). Requirement of the activation-induced deaminase (AID) gene for immunoglobulin gene conversion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5558), 1301–1306.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roati, G., D’Errico, C., Fallani, L., Fattori, M., Fort, C., Zaccanti, M., Modugno, G., Modugno, M., & Inguscio, M. (2008). Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature, 453(7197), 895–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leuf, B. (2006). The Semantic Web. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cebeci, T. (2005). Modeling and Computation of Boundary-Layer Flows: Laminar, Turbulent and Transitional Boundary Layers in Incompressible and Compressible Flows (J. Cousteix, Ed.; Second Revised and Extended Edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

KlimaŠauskas, S., LiutkeviČiŪtĖ, Z., & DaujotytĖ, D. (2009). Biophysical Approaches To Study Dna Base Flipping. In J. Puglisi (Ed.), Biophysics and the Challenges of Emerging Threats (pp. 51–64). 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, July 30). Watch A Rocket’s-Eye View Of Being Launched Into Space. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-rockets-eye-view-being-launched-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. (2005). NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines (GAO-05-818). 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

Garcia, D. M. (2010). Cutting a thorn: The cleansing function of female genital cutting [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Risen, J., & Fink, S. (2017, January 5). Trump’s Talk on Torture Adds to Global Anxiety. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Medzhitov, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov, 2008; Zarin & Tse, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zarin & Tse, 2008)
Three authors: (Arakawa et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Roati et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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