How to format your references using the Psychological Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychological Studies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Abbott, A. (2000). Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab. Nature, 405(6782), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bolhuis, J. J., & Wynne, C. D. L. (2009). Can evolution explain how minds work? Nature, 458(7240), 832–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meylan, E., Tschopp, J., & Karin, M. (2006). Intracellular pattern recognition receptors in the host response. Nature, 442(7098), 39–44.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chu, B., Zhou, X., Ren, K., Neese, B., Lin, M., Wang, Q., et al. (2006). A dielectric polymer with high electric energy density and fast discharge speed. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5785), 334–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H. H. (2011). Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mitra, A. (2015). Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet. (S. Zaman, Ed.). New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Großgasteiger, F., & Akinalp, C. (2013). Lying in Group-Communication in El-Farol-Games Patterns of Successful Manipulation. In P. Meesad, H. Unger, & S. Boonkrong (Eds.), The 9th International Conference on Computing and InformationTechnology (IC2IT2013): 9th-10th May 2013 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (pp. 9–18). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Studies.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 26). Baby Born To Woman Using Her Mother’s Transplanted Womb. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/baby-born-woman-using-her-mothers-transplanted-womb/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2009). Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidate Its Existing Disparate Systems (No. GAO-10-210T). Washington, DC: 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

Olszewski, R. M. (2012). Donor Motivations for Donating to a Nonprofit Without a Previous Relationship (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, May 28). With a Push, Schools Win On Budgets. New York Times, p. LI1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2000; Bolhuis and Wynne 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bolhuis and Wynne 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chu et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Studies
Abbreviation	Psychol. Stud. (Mysore)
ISSN (print)	0033-2968
ISSN (online)	0974-9861
Scope	General Psychology