How to format your references using the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 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

Favero, I. (2015). Optomechanics: Listening to quantum grains of sound. Nature, 520(7548), 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelham, R. J., & Chang, F. (2002). Actin dynamics in the contractile ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast. Nature, 419(6902), 82–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Q., Tao, H. W., & Poo, M.-M. (2003). Reversal and stabilization of synaptic modifications in a developing visual system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1953–1957.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fox, J. E., Starcevic, M., Kow, K. Y., Burow, M. E., & McLachlan, J. A. (2001). Nitrogen fixation. Endocrine disrupters and flavonoid signalling. Nature, 413(6852), 128–129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheringer, M. (2002). Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ismadji, S. (2015). Clay Materials for Environmental Remediation (F. E. Soetaredjo & A. Ayucitra, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Munoz, R. T., & Fox, M. D. (2013). Legal Aspects of Brain Death and Organ Donorship. In D. Novitzky & D. K. C. Cooper (Eds.), The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management (pp. 21–35). 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 Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 29). Watch A Tiny Robot Perform Surgery On A Grape. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/cute-tiny-robot-performs-surgery-grape/

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. (1971). Disbursing Transactions, Naval Ship Research and Development Laboratory (092587). 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

Holland, J. H. (2010). Investigating the relationship between the policy implementation process and the utilization of information technology in a constitutional republic: The case of I-269 NEPA process [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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. (2017, October 11). On Contraception, It’s Church Over State. New York Times, SR10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Favero, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Favero, 2015; Pelham & Chang, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pelham & Chang, 2002)
Three authors: (Zhou et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Fox et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Abbreviation	Psychol. Aesthet. Creat. Arts
ISSN (print)	1931-3896
ISSN (online)	1931-390X
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Applied Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology