How to format your references using the Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 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

Brody, H. (2014). Lung cancer. Nature, 513(7517), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moreno, N. P., & Erdmann, D. B. (2010). SPORE: Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Addressing science teacher needs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5973), 1589–1590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, R. W., Alaburda, A., & Hounsgaard, J. (2007). Balanced inhibition and excitation drive spike activity in spinal half-centers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 390–393.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, X., Wu, Y., Steel, D., Gammon, D., Stievater, T. H., Katzer, D. S., Park, D., Piermarocchi, C., & Sham, L. J. (2003). An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 809–811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gupta, K. M., & Gupta, N. (2015). Advanced Electrical and Electronics Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bader, M. (2006). CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION: Evidence from German (J. Bayer, Ed.; Vol. 34). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Saccomandi, G. (2007). Finite Amplitude Waves in Nonlinear Elastodynamics and Related Theories: A Personal Overview? In M. Destrade & G. Saccomandi (Eds.), Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials (pp. 129–179). 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 Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, June 8). Archaeologists Dig Up Britain’s Oldest Handwritten Document In Central London. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-dig-britains-oldest-handwritten-document-central-london/

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. (2004). Medicaid: Intergovernmental Transfers Have Facilitated State Financing Schemes (GAO-04-574T). 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

Thigpen, L. C. (2012). Building a concrete foundation: A mixed-method study of teaching styles and the use of concrete, representational, and abstract mathematics instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, July 4). For Once, Soccer Gods Smile on Spanish. New York Times, SP6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2014; Moreno & Erdmann, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moreno & Erdmann, 2010)
Three authors: (Berg et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
Abbreviation	Psychol. Conscious. (Wash., DC)
ISSN (print)	2326-5523
ISSN (online)	2326-5531
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