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

Sakurai, M. (2011). Perspective: Herbal dangers. Nature, 480(7378), S97.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Brito, O. M., & Scorrano, L. (2008). Mitofusin 2 tethers endoplasmic reticulum to mitochondria. Nature, 456(7222), 605–610.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine, B., Mizushima, N., & Virgin, H. W. (2011). Autophagy in immunity and inflammation. Nature, 469(7330), 323–335.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Müller, P., Bouly, J.-P., Hitomi, K., Balland, V., Getzoff, E. D., Ritz, T., & Brettel, K. (2014). ATP binding turns plant cryptochrome into an efficient natural photoswitch. Scientific Reports, 4, 5175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, G. (2005). Virtual Private Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chin, S. (2011). Pro Android Flash (D. Iverson, O. Campesato, & P. Trani, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Burkhardt, C. E., & Leventhal, J. J. (2008). Stationary States in One Dimension II. In J. J. Leventhal (Ed.), Foundations of Quantum Physics (pp. 1–56). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, May 24). Magic Mushrooms Are Safer Than Alcohol, According To Global Study. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/magic-mushrooms-safer-alcohol-global-study/

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. (1975). Information on the New Community of Soul City, North Carolina (RED-76-50). 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

Bourgault, R. R. (2008). Multi-scale pedologic investigation of manganiferous soils in the Maryland Piedmont [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, March 18). Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sakurai, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (de Brito & Scorrano, 2008; Sakurai, 2011).

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

Two authors: (de Brito & Scorrano, 2008)
Three authors: (Levine et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Müller et al., 2014)

About the journal

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