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

Marquis, R. J. (2004). Ecology. Herbivores rule. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5684), 619–621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wuchty, S., & Uetz, P. (2014). Protein-protein Interaction Networks of E. coli and S. cerevisiae are similar. Scientific Reports, 4, 7187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes, W. L., Dereux, A., & Ebbesen, T. W. (2003). Surface plasmon subwavelength optics. Nature, 424(6950), 824–830.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ebihara, M., Sekimoto, S., Shirai, N., Hamajima, Y., Yamamoto, M., Kumagai, K., Oura, Y., Ireland, T. R., Kitajima, F., Nagao, K., Nakamura, T., Naraoka, H., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Tsuchiyama, A., Uesugi, M., Yurimoto, H., Zolensky, M. E., Abe, M., … Yada, Y. (2011). Neutron activation analysis of a particle returned from asteroid Itokawa. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1119–1121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1995). Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zulkhibri, M., Ismail, A. G., & Hidayat, S. E. (Eds.). (2016). Macroprudential Regulation and Policy for the Islamic Financial Industry: Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vanacken, L., Cuppens, E., Clerckx, T., & Coninx, K. (2007). Extending a Dialog Model with Contextual Knowledge. In M. Winckler, H. Johnson, & P. Palanque (Eds.), Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design: 6th International Workshop, TAMODIA 2007, Toulouse, France, November 7-9, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 28–41). 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

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 31). A Giant Ringed Planet Is Likely The Cause Of Mysterious Eclipses. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-giant-ringed-planet-is-likely-the-cause-of-mysterious-eclipses/

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. (1987). Representational Funds: State Department Expenditures at Selected Posts (NSIAD-87-73FS). 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

Escobedo, N. L. (2014). A continuing bonds grief support group for Latinas who have lost a child: A grant proposal [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

Crow, K. (2001, February 11). The Future Comes to a Place That Hasn’t Always Had One. New York Times, 149.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marquis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Marquis, 2004; Wuchty & Uetz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wuchty & Uetz, 2014)
Three authors: (Barnes et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Ebihara et al., 2011)

About the journal

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