How to format your references using the School Psychology citation style

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

Reimold, W. U. (2003). Geosciences. Impact cratering comes of age. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1889–1890.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunbar, R. I. M., & Shultz, S. (2007). Evolution in the social brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5843), 1344–1347.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahissar, E., Sosnik, R., & Haidarliu, S. (2000). Transformation from temporal to rate coding in a somatosensory thalamocortical pathway. Nature, 406(6793), 302–306.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Morris, D. G., Huang, X., Kaminski, N., Wang, Y., Shapiro, S. D., Dolganov, G., Glick, A., & Sheppard, D. (2003). Loss of integrin alpha(v)beta6-mediated TGF-beta activation causes Mmp12-dependent emphysema. Nature, 422(6928), 169–173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dickenson, J., Freeman, F., Mills, C. L., Sivasubramaniam, S., & Thode, C. (2012). Molecular Pharmacology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yang, Y., & Ma, M. (Eds.). (2012). Green Communications and Networks: Proceedings of the International Conference on Green Communications and Networks (GCN 2011) (Vol. 113). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Figueiredo, M., Goes, J., & Evans, G. (2013). Design of a 7-bit 1 GS/s CMOS Two-Way Interleaved Pipeline ADC. In J. Goes & G. Evans (Eds.), Reference-Free CMOS Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters (pp. 117–139). 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 School Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 19). We Care About Dementia, But We Often Don’t Know What Causes It. 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. (1997). School Meal Programs: Sharing Information on Best Practices May Improve Programs’ Operations (RCED-97-126). 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

Long, R. E. (2011). Performance Assessment of Predicted Heat Strain in High Heat Stress Exposures [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Qiu, L. (2017, May 11). White House Offers Justifications for Firing. 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 (Reimold, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007; Reimold, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Morris et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	School Psychology
ISSN (print)	2578-4218
ISSN (online)	2578-4226
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