How to format your references using the Review of General Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of General 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

McNab, B. K. (2000). Energy constraints on carnivore diet. Nature, 407(6804), 584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, E., & Rapoport, T. A. (2011). Preserving the membrane barrier for small molecules during bacterial protein translocation. Nature, 473(7346), 239–242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux, E. J., Marshall, C. P., & Bekker, A. (2010). Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature, 463(7283), 934–938.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Donley, J. M., Sepulveda, C. A., Konstantinidis, P., Gemballa, S., & Shadwick, R. E. (2004). Convergent evolution in mechanical design of lamnid sharks and tunas. Nature, 429(6987), 61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., Fatu, A., & Souchet, D. (2014). Mixed Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beijaard, D., Meijer, P. C., Morine-Dershimer, G., & Tillema, H. (Eds.). (2005). Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, F., & Lu, T. (2011). Skin Mechanical Behaviour. In T. Lu (Ed.), Introduction to Skin Biothermomechanics and Thermal Pain (pp. 87–104). 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 Review of General Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, June 5). Bizarre “Hybrid” Star Found. 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). Surface Transportation: Efforts to Address Highway Congestion through Real-Time Traffic Information Systems Are Expanding but Face Implementation Challenges (GAO-10-121R). 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

Jordan, A. D. (2008). Measuring the efficacy of a Ninth Grade Academy on students with disabilities [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, May 4). Mets Thank Troops In a Meaningful Setting. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNab, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (McNab, 2000; Park & Rapoport, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Park & Rapoport, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Donley et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of General Psychology
Abbreviation	Rev. Gen. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1089-2680
ISSN (online)	1939-1552
Scope	General Psychology