How to format your references using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 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

Meystre, P. (2011). Physics. Cool vibrations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6044), 832–833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang, T. M., & Hilgemann, D. W. (2004). Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. Nature, 427(6974), 544–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khan, P., Jain, H., & Adarsh, K. V. (2014). Role of Ge:As ratio in controlling the light-induced response of a-Ge(x)As(35-x)Se65 thin films. Scientific Reports, 4, 4029.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yager, P., Edwards, T., Fu, E., Helton, K., Nelson, K., Tam, M. R., & Weigl, B. H. (2006). Microfluidic diagnostic technologies for global public health. Nature, 442(7101), 412–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, Y. (2015). Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gao, F. (2014). Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems (C. Xing & G. Wang, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wessels, H. (2011). Statistics in the South African School Curriculum. In C. Batanero, G. Burrill, & C. Reading (Eds.), Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education: A Joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study (pp. 21–25). Springer Netherlands.

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 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, June 8). Watch Japanese High School Students Hatch A Chick Outside Its Egg. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-japanese-high-school-students-hatch-a-chick-outside-its-egg/

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. (1973). Audit by the District of Columbia’s Office of Municipal Audit and Inspection of the Expenditure of Funds by the District of Columbia Public Schools During Fiscal Years 1970 and 1971 (B-118638). 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

Yamada, M. (2008). The role of the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 (TIR2) gene in auxin synthesis in Arabidopsis [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Brady, L. S. (2015, October 25). A Cobbler Is No Longer Barefoot. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meystre, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kang & Hilgemann, 2004; Meystre, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kang & Hilgemann, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yager et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
ISSN (print)	2332-2101
ISSN (online)	2332-211X
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