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

Powell, K. (2005). Make your point. Nature, 434(7031), 416–417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe, A., & Marder, E. (2004). Plasticity in single neuron and circuit computations. Nature, 431(7010), 789–795.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iborra, F. J., Jackson, D. A., & Cook, P. R. (2001). Coupled transcription and translation within nuclei of mammalian cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1139–1142.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schedlbauer, A. M., Copara, M. S., Watrous, A. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2014). Multiple interacting brain areas underlie successful spatiotemporal memory retrieval in humans. Scientific reports, 4, 6431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lam, J. (2014). Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Prieta, F. de la, & Rodríguez, J. M. C. (Eds.). (2012). International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning (Vol. 152). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Domżał, J., Wójcik, R., & Jajszczyk, A. (2009). The Impact of Congestion Control Mechanisms on Network Performance after Failure in Flow-Aware Networks. In R. Valadas & P. Salvador (Eds.), Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet: First Euro-NF Workshop, FITraMEn 2008, Porto, Portugal, December 11-12, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 53–67). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Fang, J. (2014, October 7). New Evidence Suggests Water On The Moon Comes From Solar Wind. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-wind-wafted-makings-water-moon/. 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. (1995). Improving Federal Performance in the Information Age: Issues and Opportunities--Fiscal Years 1996-98 (No. IAP-95-29). 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

Sarkissian, L. N. (2009). An examination of course-level factors contributing to student success (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016, September 30). Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times, p. C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Destexhe and Marder 2004; Powell 2005).

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

Two authors: (Destexhe and Marder 2004)
Three or more authors: (Schedlbauer et al. 2014)

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