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

Smaglik, P. (2004). The fame game. Nature, 428(6981), 447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henriksen-Lacey, M., & Giner-Casares, J. J. (2015). Nice to know you. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6253), 1254.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saitta, E. K. H., Legron-Rodriguez, T., & Bowdon, M. A. (2013). IBI* series winner. An inquiry into the water around us. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6149), 971–972.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Panchal, V., Lartsev, A., Manzin, A., Yakimova, R., Tzalenchuk, A., & Kazakova, O. (2014). Visualisation of edge effects in side-gated graphene nanodevices. Scientific Reports, 4, 5881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, A. (2012). Fracture Mechanics 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brazier, F. M. T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., & Badica, C. (Eds.). (2012). Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011 (Vol. 382). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goczyła, K., Waloszek, W., Zawadzka, T., & Zawadzki, M. (2008). Processing and Querying Description Logic Ontologies Using Cartographic Approach. In C. Cotta, S. Reich, R. Schaefer, & A. Ligęza (Eds.), Knowledge-Driven Computing: Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations (pp. 63–80). 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

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 23). Low Testosterone May Make You A Better Father. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/low-testosterone-may-make-you-a-better-father/

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). Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2005 Expenditure Plan (GAO-05-774). 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

Rouhani, M. (2013). Overdose prevention and naloxone distribution: A grant project [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

Hodgman, J. (2016, October 14). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Henriksen-Lacey & Giner-Casares, 2015; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Henriksen-Lacey & Giner-Casares, 2015)
Three authors: (Saitta et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Panchal et al., 2014)

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

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