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

Aubert, J. (2015). PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6247), 475–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilder-Smith, A., & Gubler, D. J. (2015). PUBLIC HEALTH. Dengue vaccines at a crossroad. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6261), 626–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rainville, S., Thompson, J. K., & Pritchard, D. E. (2004). An ion balance for ultra-high-precision atomic mass measurements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), 334–338.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Miller, A. D., Bezel, I., Gaffney, K. J., Garrett-Roe, S., Liu, S. H., Szymanski, P., & Harris, C. B. (2002). Electron solvation in two dimensions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1163–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh, R. (2016). Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Alaoui-Jamali, M. (Ed.). (2010). Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Integrative Approaches and Discovery of Conventional Drugs. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Vish, M., & Shanley, T. P. (2009). Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In D. S. Wheeler, H. R. Wong, & T. P. Shanley (Eds.), The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury (pp. 1–17). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, January 14). Lions are on the brink of extinction in West Africa. 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. (1999). Truck Safety: Motor Carriers Office’s Activities to Reduce Fatalities Are Likely to Have Little Short-term Effect (T-RCED-99-89). 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

Mosbacker, H. L. (2008). Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Barron, J. (2016, October 10). Peter Allen Dies at 96; Longtime Host of Met Opera’s Radio Broadcasts. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aubert, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Aubert, 2015; Wilder-Smith & Gubler, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wilder-Smith & Gubler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2002)

About the journal

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