How to format your references using the Psychometrika citation style

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

Tokmakoff, A. (2007). Chemistry. Shining light on the rapidly evolving structure of water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5834), 54–55.

A journal article with 2 authors

Srivastava, D., & Ivey, K. N. (2006). Potential of stem-cell-based therapies for heart disease. Nature, 441(7097), 1097–1099.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakami, K. S., Masuda, S., & Darst, S. A. (2002). Structural basis of transcription initiation: RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 4 A resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1280–1284.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chichak, K. S., Cantrill, S. J., Pease, A. R., Chiu, S.-H., Cave, G. W. V., Atwood, J. L., & Stoddart, J. F. (2004). Molecular borromean rings. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1308–1312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A. (2008). A Practical Guide to Reliable Finite Element Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pawar, K. S., Rogers, H., Potter, A., & Naim, M. (Eds.). (2016). Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, X. (2013). The Evaluation Model of Construction Industry Financial Risk Based on SVM. In Z. Yin, L. Pan, & X. Fang (Eds.), Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2013 (pp. 37–44). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Psychometrika.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, April 10). Why are the Dutch the Tallest People on Earth? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-dutch-tallest-people-earth/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2017). Rural Broadband Deployment: Improved Consistency with Leading Practices Could Enhance Management of Loan and Grant Programs (No. GAO-17-301). Washington, DC: 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

Clark, B. M. (2013). Faculty Perceptions of the Importance of Internationalizing the General Education Curriculum in the Florida College System (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Steinberger, M. (2013, August 23). The Afterlife Of The Best Tennis Player In The World. New York Times, p. MM31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tokmakoff 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Srivastava and Ivey 2006; Tokmakoff 2007).

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

Two authors: (Srivastava and Ivey 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chichak et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychometrika
Abbreviation	Psychometrika
ISSN (print)	0033-3123
ISSN (online)	1860-0980
Scope	Applied Mathematics General Psychology