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

Shlesinger, M. F. (2000). Statistical mechanics. Exploring phase space. Nature, 405(6783), 135, 137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trembleau, L., & Rebek, J., Jr. (2003). Helical conformation of alkanes in a hydrophobic cavitand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637), 1219–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamada, Y., Kawabe, T., & Miyazaki, M. (2013). Pattern randomness aftereffect. Scientific Reports, 3, 2906.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kops, G. J. P. L., Dansen, T. B., Polderman, P. E., Saarloos, I., Wirtz, K. W. A., Coffer, P. J., Huang, T.-T., Bos, J. L., Medema, R. H., & Burgering, B. M. T. (2002). Forkhead transcription factor FOXO3a protects quiescent cells from oxidative stress. Nature, 419(6904), 316–321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, J. M. (2009). Chromatography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bello, F., Kajimoto, H., & Visell, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications: 10th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2016, London, UK, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 9775). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Luft, A., Bastian, A. J., & Dietz, V. (2012). Learning in the Damaged Brain/Spinal Cord: Neuroplasticity. In V. Dietz, T. Nef, & W. Z. Rymer (Eds.), Neurorehabilitation Technology (pp. 57–69). 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 Popular Media Culture.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 22). Mars One Finalist Announces That It’s All A Scam. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/whats-going-mars-one/

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. (1999). Medical Records Privacy: Uses and Oversight of Patient Information in Research (T-HEHS-99-70). 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

Martinez Abadia, J. M. (2014). French for Spanish speakers: A contrastive study of English monolingual, bilingual, and plurilingual adult learners of French [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. (2016, December 28). Art That’s Disposable, but by No Means Throwaway. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shlesinger, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Shlesinger, 2000; Trembleau & Rebek, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Trembleau & Rebek, 2003)
Three authors: (Yamada et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Kops 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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