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:

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

Rice, S. A. (2001). Interfering for the good of a chemical reaction. Nature, 409(6818), 422–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hasty, P., & Vijg, J. (2002). Aging. Genomic priorities in aging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1250–1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

GrandPré, T., Li, S., & Strittmatter, S. M. (2002). Nogo-66 receptor antagonist peptide promotes axonal regeneration. Nature, 417(6888), 547–551.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Solanki, S. K., Lagg, A., Woch, J., Krupp, N., & Collados, M. (2003). Three-dimensional magnetic field topology in a region of solar coronal heating. Nature, 425(6959), 692–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, A. H., & Reade, J. P. H. (2010). Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pape, H.-C., Sanders, R., & Borrelli, J., Jr. (Eds.). (2016). The Poly-Traumatized Patient with Fractures: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (2nd ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Holleis, P., & Schmidt, A. (2008). MakeIt: Integrate User Interaction Times in the Design Process of Mobile Applications. In J. Indulska, D. J. Patterson, T. Rodden, & M. Ott (Eds.), Pervasive Computing: 6th International Conference, Pervasive 2008 Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 56–74). Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 9). Rare and Deadly, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Remains a Bit of a Medical Mystery. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rare-and-deadly-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-remains-bit-medical-mystery/

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. (2014). Financial Literacy: Overview of Federal Activities, Programs, and Challenges (GAO-14-556T). 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

Stanford, C. J. (2008). Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, June 25). Sale of Albee Collection To Benefit Foundation. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hasty & Vijg, 2002; Rice, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hasty & Vijg, 2002)
Three authors: (GrandPré et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Solanki et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychoanalytic Psychology
Abbreviation	Psychoanal. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0736-9735
ISSN (online)	1939-1331
Scope	Clinical Psychology

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