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

Gavaghan, H. (2001). Current role suggests the shape of future work opportunities. Nature, 409(6822), 963–964.

A journal article with 2 authors

Canup, R. M., & Asphaug, E. (2001). Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth’s formation. Nature, 412(6848), 708–712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, D., Zhang, P., & Yan, J. (2014). Ab initio molecular dynamics study of high-pressure melting of beryllium oxide. Scientific Reports, 4, 4707.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rowland, H. M., Ihalainen, E., Lindström, L., Mappes, J., & Speed, M. P. (2007). Co-mimics have a mutualistic relationship despite unequal defences. Nature, 448(7149), 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. (2013). Extractive Metallurgy 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Didonna, F. (Ed.). (2009). Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hong, Y. (2016). Gender Inequality and Ethnicity. In J. C.-K. Lee, Z. Yu, X. Huang, & E. H.-F. Law (Eds.), Educational Development in Western China: Towards Quality and Equity (pp. 77–96). SensePublishers.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably. 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. (2007). Federal Aviation Administration: Observations on Selected Changes to FAA’s Funding and Budget Structure in the Administration’s Reauthorization Proposal (GAO-07-625T). 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

Harper, T. (2010). Going public, staying private, and everything in between [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Marx, L. (2014, June 1). After the Guests Have Left. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Canup & Asphaug, 2001; Gavaghan, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Canup & Asphaug, 2001)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Rowland et al., 2007)

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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