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

Macilwain, C. (2010). World view: Leaders wanted. Nature, 466(7309), 919.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann, H. M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2009). Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle. Nature, 459(7246), 560–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershenfeld, N., Samouhos, S., & Nordman, B. (2010). Engineering. Intelligent infrastructure for energy efficiency. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1086–1088.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Regan, B. C., Aloni, S., Ritchie, R. O., Dahmen, U., & Zettl, A. (2004). Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale mass conveyors. Nature, 428(6986), 924–927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

George, M. D., Donley, T. G., & Preshaw, P. M. (2014). Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Priami, C., Merelli, E., Gonzalez, P., & Omicini, A. (Eds.). (2005). Transactions on Computational Systems Biology III (Vol. 3737). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Meadows, L. (2007). OpenMP 3.0 – A Preview of the Upcoming Standard. In R. Perrott, B. M. Chapman, J. Subhlok, R. F. de Mello, & L. T. Yang (Eds.), High Performance Computing and Communications: Third International Conference, HPCC 2007, Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 4–4). 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

Taub, B. (2016, October 3). Something Weird Happens When You Give Cocaine To Fish. 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. (2009). Highway Trust Fund: Improved Solvency Mechanisms and Communication Needed to Help Avoid Shortfalls in the Highway Account (GAO-09-316). 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

Spezia, K. (2015). Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfers in Porous Media [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, May 4). Film Series. New York Times, C31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gonnermann & Mukhopadhyay, 2009; Macilwain, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gonnermann & Mukhopadhyay, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Regan et al., 2004)

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)