How to format your references using the Psychological Services citation style

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

Bianco, P. (2013). Don’t market stem-cell products ahead of proof. Nature, 499(7458), 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitra, P. P., & Stark, J. B. (2001). Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications. Nature, 411(6841), 1027–1030.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cappellini, E., Collins, M. J., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2014). Biochemistry. Unlocking ancient protein palimpsests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1320–1322.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dominguez-Sola, D., Ying, C. Y., Grandori, C., Ruggiero, L., Chen, B., Li, M., Galloway, D. A., Gu, W., Gautier, J., & Dalla-Favera, R. (2007). Non-transcriptional control of DNA replication by c-Myc. Nature, 448(7152), 445–451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larrieu, N., & Varet, A. (2014). Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zereini, F., & Wiseman, C. L. S. (Eds.). (2015). Platinum Metals in the Environment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, H. (2012). Complying with Regulations. In K. Verghese, H. Lewis, & L. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Packaging for Sustainability (pp. 155–169). 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 Services.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, May 25). Math Problem “Stumping Internet” Is A Hoax, So Here Is The Real One. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/math-problem-stumping-internet-is-a-hoax-so-here-is-the-real-one/

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. (2008). Freight Transportation: National Policy and Strategies Can Help Improve Freight Mobility (GAO-08-287). 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

Kehoe, M. I. (2008). Tobacco control: A qualitative assessment of the perceptions and practices of nurse practitioners [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly Beatty, J., & Special to The New. (1985, June 18). EARLY DATA ARRIVE FROM PROBE ON VENUS. New York Times, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bianco, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bianco, 2013; Mitra & Stark, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Mitra & Stark, 2001)
Three authors: (Cappellini et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Dominguez-Sola et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Services
Abbreviation	Psychol. Serv.
ISSN (print)	1541-1559
ISSN (online)	1939-148X
Scope	Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology