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

Lovett, R. A. (2000). PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5486), 1853a–1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gestwicki, J. E., & Kiessling, L. L. (2002). Inter-receptor communication through arrays of bacterial chemoreceptors. Nature, 415(6867), 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Didenko, Y. T., McNamara, W. B., 3rd, & Suslick, K. S. (2000). Molecular emission from single-bubble sonoluminescence. Nature, 407(6806), 877–879.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gómez Cano, A. R., Cantalapiedra, J. L., Álvarez-Sierra, M. Á., & Hernández Fernández, M. (2014). A macroecological glance at the structure of late Miocene rodent assemblages from Southwest Europe. Scientific Reports, 4, 6557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper, J., Zalewski, A., & Watanabe, E. (2013). Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Holovaty, A. (2008). The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (J. Kaplan-Moss, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Y., Liu, X., & Wang, G. (2012). Indirect Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control. In X. Wang, F. Wang, & S. Zhong (Eds.), Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics 2011: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics (EIEM 2011) (pp. 43–49). 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

Fang, J. (2015, May 17). New Magnetic Shield Protects Next-Generation Physics Experiments. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-magnetic-shield-protects-next-generation-physics-experiments/

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. (2011). DOD Education Benefits: Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program (GAO-11-389T). 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

Husted, C. L. (2008). Systematic differentiation between Dark and Light Leaders: Is a corporate criminal profile possible? [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Leland, J. (2016, December 16). The Last Days for the Circus. New York Times, MB8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gestwicki & Kiessling, 2002; Lovett, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gestwicki & Kiessling, 2002)
Three authors: (Didenko et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Gómez Cano et al., 2014)

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)