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

Loder, N. (2000). UK discussed ban on foreign job ads in 1960s. Nature, 403(6766), 121.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsou, M.-F. B., & Stearns, T. (2006). Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature, 442(7105), 947–951.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webber, B. L., Le Maitre, D. C., & Kriticos, D. J. (2012). Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 193; author reply 193.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bahatyrova, S., Frese, R. N., Siebert, C. A., Olsen, J. D., Van Der Werf, K. O., Van Grondelle, R., Niederman, R. A., Bullough, P. A., Otto, C., & Hunter, C. N. (2004). The native architecture of a photosynthetic membrane. Nature, 430(7003), 1058–1062.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., & Broniatowski, M. (2017). Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xu, J. (2014). Innovative Approaches Towards Low Carbon Economics: Regional Development Cybernetics (L. Yao & Y. Lu, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cornillon, P.-A., Hengartner, N., Lefieux, V., & Matzner-Løber, E. (2015). Fully Nonparametric Short Term Forecasting Electricity Consumption. In A. Antoniadis, J.-M. Poggi, & X. Brossat (Eds.), Modeling and Stochastic Learning for Forecasting in High Dimensions (pp. 79–93). Springer International Publishing.

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, October 2). Mining For Metals In Society’s Waste. 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. (1997). Core Competencies for Financial System Analysts in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft) (CC–4). 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

Gray, J. L. (2014). Overcoming the threat of racial stereotyping in the workplace [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Kovaleski, S. F., Alter, A., & Howard, J. C. (2015, March 12). Friends, Fans and Now Alabama Debate the State of Harper Lee. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Loder, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Loder, 2000; Tsou & Stearns, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Tsou & Stearns, 2006)
Three authors: (Webber et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Bahatyrova et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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