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

Weaire, D. (2013). Applied physics. A fresh start for foam physics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 693–694.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwamoto, H., & Yagi, N. (2013). The molecular trigger for high-speed wing beats in a bee. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1243–1246.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cerritelli, S. M., Chon, H., & Crouch, R. J. (2011). Molecular biology. A new twist for topoisomerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6037), 1510–1511.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Governato, F., Brook, C., Mayer, L., Brooks, A., Rhee, G., Wadsley, J., Jonsson, P., Willman, B., Stinson, G., Quinn, T., & Madau, P. (2010). Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows. Nature, 463(7278), 203–206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hammes, G. G. (2005). Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nickerson, B. (Ed.). (2011). Sample Preparation of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Challenges and Strategies for Sample Preparation and Extraction. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Walker, R. (2011). Design-Based Researchresearch Design-based (DBR) : Reflections on Some Epistemological Issues and Practices. In L. Markauskaite, P. Freebody, & J. Irwin (Eds.), Methodological Choice and Design: Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research (pp. 51–56). 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

Luntz, S. (2016, July 25). Natural Disasters Spark Civil Wars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/natural-disasters-spark-civil-wars/

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. (1988). Unmanned Vehicles: Assessment of DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Master Plan (NSIAD-89-41BR). 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

Osifalujo, A. (2015). Code-switching in Working African Americans: Internalized Racism, Minority Status, and Organizational Commitment [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Duerden, J. (2016, November 15). Mourning a King While Respectfully Cheering a Tie. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weaire, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Iwamoto & Yagi, 2013; Weaire, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Iwamoto & Yagi, 2013)
Three authors: (Cerritelli et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Governato et al., 2010)

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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