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

Henrich, J. (2014). Psychology. Rice, psychology, and innovation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6184), 593–594.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nudds, R. L., & Dyke, G. J. (2010). Narrow primary feather rachises in Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx suggest poor flight ability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 887–889.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., Danovaro, R., & Loreau, M. (2014). Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. Scientific reports, 4, 5427.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boström, K. J., de Lussanet, M. H. E., Weiss, T., Puta, C., & Wagner, H. (2014). A computational model unifies apparently contradictory findings concerning phantom pain. Scientific reports, 4, 5298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Q. (2013). Practical Design of Magnetostatic Structure Using Numerical Simulation. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Sarkar, F. H. (Ed.). (2014). MicroRNA Targeted Cancer Therapy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Martini, L. C. (2015). Introducing the Dimensional Continuous Space–Time Theory. In F. L. Gaol, K. Shrivastava, & J. Akhtar (Eds.), Recent Trends in Physics of Material Science and Technology (pp. 49–65). Singapore: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 3). Barriers, Canals And Fake Islands: How We Can Save Cities From Rising Sea Levels. 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. (1995). Education and Employment Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-96 (No. IAP-95-32). 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

Reynolds, P. E. (2012). Learning the Ropes: A Grounded Theory Study of Children Crossing Cultures (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

Mazzetti, M., & Hubbard, B. (2016, October 15). Rise of Young Prince Shatters Decades of Saudi Royal Tradition. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henrich 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Henrich 2014; Nudds and Dyke 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nudds and Dyke 2010)
Three or more authors: (Boström et al. 2014)

About the journal

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

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