How to format your references using the Psychoanalytic Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychoanalytic 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Stocker, T. F. (2015). The silent services of the world ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6262), 764–765.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hibbs, R. E., & Gouaux, E. (2011). Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor. Nature, 474(7349), 54–60.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lü, L., Zhang, Z.-K., & Zhou, T. (2013). Deviation of Zipf’s and Heaps’ Laws in human languages with limited dictionary sizes. Scientific Reports, 3, 1082.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Emerson, J. J., Kaessmann, H., Betrán, E., & Long, M. (2004). Extensive gene traffic on the mammalian X chromosome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5657), 537–540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
AIChE technical manual. (1998). Dow’s Chemical Exposure Index Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Duy, V. H., Dao, T. T., Zelinka, I., Choi, H.-S., & Chadli, M. (Eds.). (2016). AETA 2015: Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 371). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Mariconda, C., & Tonolo, A. (2016). Inclusion/Exclusion. In A. Tonolo (Ed.), Discrete Calculus: Methods for Counting (pp. 83–104). 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 Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Blog post
Hamilton, K. (2014, October 6). A Man Took This Photograph Of Birds, And Turned Their Positions Into Musical Notes. 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. (1991). Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed (IMTEC-91-48). 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
Nelson, A. F. (2014). Anxiety in the process of individuation. An in-depth psychological study [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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
Walsh, M. W. (2015, September 10). Puerto Rico Unveils Painful Plan for Islanders, and Bond Holders. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hibbs & Gouaux, 2011; Stocker, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Hibbs & Gouaux, 2011)
  • Three authors: (Lü et al., 2013)
  • 6 or more authors: (Emerson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titlePsychoanalytic Psychology
AbbreviationPsychoanal. Psychol.
ISSN (print)0736-9735
ISSN (online)1939-1331
ScopeClinical Psychology

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