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

Benenson, Y. (2013). Engineering. Recombinatorial logic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6132), 554–555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura, M. T., & Dangl, J. L. (2014). Plant science. Paired plant immune receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6181), 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buhr, E. D., Yoo, S.-H., & Takahashi, J. S. (2010). Temperature as a universal resetting cue for mammalian circadian oscillators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 379–385.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Q., Owens, J. R., Han, C., Sumpter, B. G., Lu, W., Bernholc, J., et al. (2013). Self-organized and cu-coordinated surface linear polymerization. Scientific reports, 3, 2102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raheja, D. G., & Allocco, M. (2006). Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moret, S. (2014). Il campione per l’analisi chimica: Tecniche innovative e applicazioni nei settori agroalimentare e ambientale. (G. Purcaro & L. S. Conte, Eds.). Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vahrenkamp, N., Asfour, T., & Dillmann, R. (2010). Efficient Motion and Grasp Planning for Humanoid Robots. In K. Harada, E. Yoshida, & K. Yokoi (Eds.), Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots (pp. 129–160). London: 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 Injury and Law.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 10). Global Temperature Increase of 1 Degree Caused Sea Level Rise of 6 Meters. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-temperature-increase-1-degree-caused-sea-level-rises-6-meters/. 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. (2005). Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Is Proceeding with Its Accelerated Systems Initiative but Needs to Address Operational Issues (No. GAO-05-97). 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

Nguyen, D. (2009). Deus-ex-machina: A modern skeptic’s relentless scrutiny of the production of ethics in post-colonial literature and postcolonialism (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, November 4). Quenching the Desire to Run. New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benenson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Benenson 2013; Nishimura and Dangl 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nishimura and Dangl 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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