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

Endersby, J. (2009). Lumpers and splitters: Darwin, Hooker, and the search for order. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5959), 1496–1499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weir, J. T., & Schluter, D. (2007). The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1574–1576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell, J. T., ap Rhys, C. M. J., & Dietz, H. C. (2002). Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5592), 419–422.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, P., Chan, H. C., He, B., So, S. C., Chung, Y. W., Shang, Q., et al. (2001). An antimicrobial peptide gene found in the male reproductive system of rats. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1783–1785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi, S. V. (2001). Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bagley, R. G. (Ed.). (2010). The Tumor Microenvironment. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharyya, S., & Maulik, U. (2013). Target Tracking Using Fuzzy Hostility Induced Segmentation of Optical Flow Field. In U. Maulik (Ed.), Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing (pp. 97–107). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, December 16). Distant Exoplanets Around Other Stars More Likely To Be Ice Giants Like Neptune. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2001). National Transportation Safety Board: Weak Internal Control Impaired Financial Accountability (No. GAO-01-1032). 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

Martin, R. L. (2017). Development of a Nutrition Program with Emphasis on Use of Social Media for Middle School Students (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Folkers, K. M. (2016, August 20). The Millennials’ S.T.D.? New York Times, p. SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Endersby 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Endersby 2009; Weir and Schluter 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weir and Schluter 2007)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2001)

About the journal

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