How to format your references using the Psychology of Violence citation style

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

Rakic, P. (2001). Neurobiology. Neurocreationism--making new cortical maps. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1011–1012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, R., & Mathew, S. (2007). Behavior. A narrow road to cooperation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5833), 1858–1859.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuck, C., Pernice, W. H. P., & Tang, H. X. (2013). Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Scientific Reports, 3, 1893.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bendkowsky, V., Butscher, B., Nipper, J., Shaffer, J. P., Löw, R., & Pfau, T. (2009). Observation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules. Nature, 458(7241), 1005–1008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharkh, S. M., Abusara, M. A., Orfanoudakis, G. I., & Hussain, B. (2014). Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Bilgin, M. H., Danis, H., Demir, E., & Lau, C. K. M. (Eds.). (2015). Innovation, Finance, and the Economy: Proceedings of the 13th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference (Vol. 1). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamadicharef, B. (2011). International Collaborations in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Research. In Z. Gong, X. Luo, J. Chen, J. Lei, & F. L. Wang (Eds.), Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 35–42). 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 Violence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). White Shark Populations Are Growing. Here’s Why That’s Good News. 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. (1989). Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Operational Tests Extended (IMTEC-89-30). 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

Dimapilis, B. (2015). Service line extension: Acquisition of fluoroscopy equipment to supplement pain management procedures [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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, August 8). A New Press Secretary, for a President at War With the Press. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd & Mathew, 2007; Rakic, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Boyd & Mathew, 2007)
Three authors: (Schuck et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Bendkowsky et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Violence
Abbreviation	Psychol. Violence
ISSN (print)	2152-0828
ISSN (online)	2152-081X
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology Health(social science)