How to format your references using the Psychological Injury and Law citation style

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

Ohman, A. (2005). Psychology. Conditioned fear of a face: a prelude to ethnic enmity? Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 711–713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wagner, W. R., & Griffith, B. P. (2010). Reconstructing the lung. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5991), 520–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freitag, J., Ast, J., & Bölker, M. (2012). Cryptic peroxisomal targeting via alternative splicing and stop codon read-through in fungi. Nature, 485(7399), 522–525.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sakurai, Y., Itou, M., Barbiellini, B., Mijnarends, P. E., Markiewicz, R. S., Kaprzyk, S., et al. (2011). Imaging doped holes in a cuprate superconductor with high-resolution Compton scattering. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6030), 698–702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke, R. M., Nieboer, D., & Misiewicz, J. (2014). Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bolzon, G., Boukharouba, T., Gabetta, G., Elboujdaini, M., & Mellas, M. (Eds.). (2011). Integrity of Pipelines Transporting Hydrocarbons: Corrosion, Mechanisms, Control, and Management (Vol. 1). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, S. K., Nishi, S. P. E., & Sharma, G. (2012). Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older Patients. In M. Pisani (Ed.), Aging and Lung Disease: A Clinical Guide (pp. 63–87). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Injury and Law.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017, April 6). Here’s Why LSD Microdosing Could Be The Next Major Breakthrough In Mental Healthcare. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). FAA Staffing: Better Strategy Needed to Ensure Facilities Are Properly Staffed (No. T-RCED-92-8). Washington, DC: 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

Smith, J. A. (2010). Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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, December 10). Senate Republicans Introduce Bill for Relief of Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ohman 2005; Wagner and Griffith 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wagner and Griffith 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sakurai et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Injury and Law
Abbreviation	Psychol. Inj. Law
ISSN (print)	1938-971X
ISSN (online)	1938-9728
Scope	Ecology Psychiatry and Mental health Law