How to format your references using the Psychology of Popular Media Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Popular Media Culture. 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

Knight, J. C. (2003). Photonic crystal fibres. Nature, 424(6950), 847–851.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker, H. G., & Ostrander, E. A. (2014). Cancer. Hiding in plain view--an ancient dog in the modern world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6169), 376–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, Y., Meyer, H. H., & Rapoport, T. A. (2001). The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol. Nature, 414(6864), 652–656.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tessler, N., Medvedev, V., Kazes, M., Kan, S., & Banin, U. (2002). Efficient near-infrared polymer nanocrystal light-emitting diodes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1506–1508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furger, C. (2016). Live Cell Assays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kim, Y. S., Kang, B. H., & Richards, D. (Eds.). (2014). Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services: 13th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2014, Gold Cost, Qld, Australia, December 1-2, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8863). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Henry, B. W., & Malu, K. F. (2011). Coaching, Mentoring, and Supervision for Workplace Learning. In J. P. Hafler (Ed.), Extraordinary Learning in the Workplace (pp. 63–84). Springer Netherlands.

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 Popular Media Culture.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, January 10). An Asteroid Just Flew By Earth About 50% Closer Than The Moon, And We Barely Saw It Coming. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Development Schedule Should Be Changed to Reduce Risks (T-NSIAD-00-132). 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

Wistrom, C. A. (2017). Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Kelly, S. (2000, September 10). Nothing Lasts Forever. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Knight, 2003; Parker & Ostrander, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Parker & Ostrander, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tessler et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Popular Media Culture
Abbreviation	Psychol. Pop. Media Cult.
ISSN (print)	2160-4134
ISSN (online)	2160-4142
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