How to format your references using the Psychological Assessment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychological Assessment. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kleinberg, J. M. (2000). Navigation in a small world. Nature, 406(6798), 845.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knobel, R. G., & Cleland, A. N. (2003). Nanometre-scale displacement sensing using a single electron transistor. Nature, 424(6946), 291–293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chadderton, P., Margrie, T. W., & Häusser, M. (2004). Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing. Nature, 428(6985), 856–860.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ku, Z., Rong, Y., Xu, M., Liu, T., & Han, H. (2013). Full printable processed mesoscopic CH₃NH₃PbI₃/TiO₂ heterojunction solar cells with carbon counter electrode. Scientific Reports, 3, 3132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orchin, M., Macomber, R. S., Pinhas, A. R., & Wilson, R. M. (2005). The Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dobkin, P. L. (2016). Mindful Medical Practitioners: A Guide for Clinicians and Educators (C. S. Hassed, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Oliver, B. R., & Hodgins, S. (2013). Understanding Violence in Girls with Substance Misuse Problems. In A.-K. Andershed (Ed.), Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment (pp. 79–104). 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 Psychological Assessment.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 20). A Giant Lava Lamp Inside The Earth Might Be Flipping The Planet’s Magnetic Field. 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. (1970). Review of Expenditures of Federal Funds Granted Under the Community Service and Continuing Education Program (B-164031(1)). 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

Feeney, K. (2011, April 24). Macarons of Her Own. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleinberg, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kleinberg, 2000; Knobel & Cleland, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Knobel & Cleland, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ku et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Assessment
Abbreviation	Psychol. Assess.
ISSN (print)	1040-3590
ISSN (online)	1939-134X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology