How to format your references using the Psychological Review citation style

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

Levinson, P. (2000). The enduring test. Nature, 404(6781), 937.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gelbart, W. M., & Knobler, C. M. (2009). Virology. Pressurized viruses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5922), 1682–1683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saá, P., Castilla, J., & Soto, C. (2006). Presymptomatic detection of prions in blood. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5783), 92–94.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Keeling, L., Andersson, L., Schütz, K. E., Kerje, S., Fredriksson, R., Carlborg, O., Cornwallis, C. K., Pizzari, T., & Jensen, P. (2004). Chicken genomics: feather-pecking and victim pigmentation. Nature, 431(7009), 645–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaplan, W. (1998). Maxima and Minima with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Duy, V. H., Dao, T. T., Zelinka, I., Choi, H.-S., & Chadli, M. (Eds.). (2016). AETA 2015: Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 371). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mattmann, C. A., & Medvidovic, N. (2007). The GridLite DREAM: Bringing the Grid to Your Pocket. In F. Kordon & J. Sztipanovits (Eds.), Reliable Systems on Unreliable Networked Platforms: 12th Monterey Workshop 2005, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, September 22-24, 2005. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 70–87). 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 Review.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 20). New Laser Treatment Based On Deep-Sea Bacteria Effectively Treats Prostate Cancer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-laser-treatment-based-on-deepsea-bacteria-effectively-treats-prostate-cancer/

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. (1999). Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers (NSIAD-00-14). 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

Dammann, N. M. (2009). Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

de la MERCED, M. J., & Steel, E. (2017, May 1). 21st Century Fox and Blackstone May Be Devising a Joint Offer for Tribune Media. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levinson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gelbart & Knobler, 2009; Levinson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gelbart & Knobler, 2009)
Three authors: (Saá et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Keeling et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Review
Abbreviation	Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0033-295X
ISSN (online)	1939-1471
Scope	General Psychology