How to format your references using the Qualitative Psychology citation style

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

Czeisler, C. A. (2013). Perspective: casting light on sleep deficiency. Nature, 497(7450), S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Outten, C. E., & O’Halloran, T. V. (2001). Femtomolar sensitivity of metalloregulatory proteins controlling zinc homeostasis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2488–2492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauke, P., Tagliacozzo, L., & Lewenstein, M. (2012). Physics. Speeding up quantum field theories. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1122–1123.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, L., Yu, P., Zhao, L., Tian, C., Zhao, D., Zhou, W., Yin, J., Wang, R., & Fu, H. (2014). B and N isolate-doped graphitic carbon nanosheets from nitrogen-containing ion-exchanged resins for enhanced oxygen reduction. Scientific Reports, 4, 5184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thomas, C. G. (2014). Greece. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Banu, N. (2016). Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe (S. Fazal, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakawa, M., Yano, H., & Nishizaki, I. (2013). Fuzzy Linear Programming. In H. Yano & I. Nishizaki (Eds.), Linear and Multiobjective Programming with Fuzzy Stochastic Extensions (pp. 105–148). Springer US.

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 Qualitative Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 17). China’s Smog Kills More Than A Million Each Year – But There’s A Clearer Road Ahead. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-s-smog-kills-more-million-each-year-there-s-clearer-road-ahead/

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. (1999). Telecommunications: FCC Does Not Know if All Required Fees Are Collected (RCED-99-216). 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

Vaughn, E. L. (2013). Find me on Facebook: A new typology for categorizing online personalities [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

Kelly, M. (1992, September 28). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Uses Farm Speech to Begin New Offensive. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Czeisler, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Czeisler, 2013; Outten & O’Halloran, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Outten & O’Halloran, 2001)
Three authors: (Hauke et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Qualitative Psychology
Abbreviation	Qual. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2326-3598
ISSN (online)	2326-3601
Scope

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