How to format your references using the Psychological Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychological Bulletin. 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2007). Radar satellites: mountains to molehills. Nature, 446(7131), 22–23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doebeli, M., & Ispolatov, I. (2010). Complexity and diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhn, G., Hijri, M., & Sanders, I. R. (2001). Evidence for the evolution of multiple genomes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature, 414(6865), 745–748.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sturgill, D., Zhang, Y., Parisi, M., & Oliver, B. (2007). Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus. Nature, 450(7167), 238–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toptygin, I. N. (2015). Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Trappl, R. (Ed.). (2015). A Construction Manual for Robots’ Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Implementations (1st ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Isidoro, C., Fachada, N., Barata, F., & Rosa, A. (2009). Agent-Based Model of Aedes aegypti Population Dynamics. In L. S. Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 53–64). 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 Bulletin.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 23). Exoplanet Infographics Highlights The Lack Of Twin Earths. 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. (2007). Aviation Finance: Observations on the Current FAA Funding Structure’s Support for Aviation Activities, Issues Affecting Future Costs, and Proposed Funding Changes (GAO-07-1163T). 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

Cornelius, D. A. (2014). The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Flegenheimer, M. (2013, August 24). C Train Cafe? The M.T.A. May Put Up a Fight. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Doebeli & Ispolatov, 2010; Schiermeier, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Doebeli & Ispolatov, 2010)
Three authors: (Kuhn et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Sturgill et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Bulletin
Abbreviation	Psychol. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0033-2909
ISSN (online)	1939-1455
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Psychology