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

Evans, R. L. (2014). Geophysics: Making the Earth move. Nature, 509(7498), 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, V. M., & Bier, E. (2015). Genome editing. The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 442–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Purohit, P., Mitra, A., & Auerbach, A. (2007). A stepwise mechanism for acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature, 446(7138), 930–933.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shigenobu, S., Watanabe, H., Hattori, M., Sakaki, Y., & Ishikawa, H. (2000). Genome sequence of the endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids Buchnera sp. APS. Nature, 407(6800), 81–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartley, J. (2011). Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Dutt, A. K., Noble, A. G., Costa, F. J., Thakur, S. K., Thakur, R., & Sharma, H. S. (Eds.). (2015). Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development: Volume 1: Regional Resources (1st ed. 2015). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

van Aartsengel, A., & Kurtoglu, S. (2013). Strategic Planning and Management. In S. Kurtoglu (Ed.), A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation (pp. 51–63). 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

Andrew, D. (2016, August 9). How Sharks Could Help Us Regrow Our Own Human Teeth. 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. (1988). ADP Management: Status of the Army’s Logistics and Technical Information Initiatives (IMTEC-89-10). 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

Jakubowski, J. K. (2013). Making character education a reality: An investigation of secondary teachers’ perspectives toward implementation [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

Shear, M. D. (2017, June 26). Questions and Answers About the Ruling. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Evans, 2014; Gantz & Bier, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gantz & Bier, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Shigenobu et al., 2000)

About the journal

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