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

Hochstrasser, M. (2009). Origin and function of ubiquitin-like proteins. Nature, 458(7237), 422–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lodish, H., & Fedoroff, N. (2012). Retrospective. Norton Zinder (1928-2012). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, M. C., Zalatan, J. G., & Lim, W. A. (2011). Scaffold proteins: hubs for controlling the flow of cellular information. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6030), 680–686.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Carmona-Fontaine, C., Matthews, H. K., Kuriyama, S., Moreno, M., Dunn, G. A., Parsons, M., Stern, C. D., & Mayor, R. (2008). Contact inhibition of locomotion in vivo controls neural crest directional migration. Nature, 456(7224), 957–961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, D. (2011). Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

El-Alfy, E.-S. M., Thampi, S. M., Takagi, H., Piramuthu, S., & Hanne, T. (Eds.). (2015). Advances in Intelligent Informatics (Vol. 320). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hens, N., Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Van Damme, P., & Beutels, P. (2012). Estimating the Force of Infection from Incidence and Prevalence. In Z. Shkedy, M. Aerts, C. Faes, P. Van Damme, & P. Beutels (Eds.), Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective (pp. 79–88). 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

Evans, K. (2017, January 4). Navy-Trained Dolphins To Help Find And Rescue Endangered Vaquita Porpoises. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/navy-trained-dolphins-to-help-find-and-rescue-endangered-vaquita-porpoises/

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. (2012). HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls (GAO-12-580T). 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

Kelly, E. J. (2016). What experiences create and nurture a love of science? [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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. (2011, March 11). The Burden Of Pensions On States. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hochstrasser, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hochstrasser, 2009; Lodish & Fedoroff, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lodish & Fedoroff, 2012)
Three authors: (Good et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Carmona-Fontaine et al., 2008)

About the journal

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