How to format your references using the School Psychology Quarterly citation style

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

Batygin, K. (2012). A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits. Nature, 491(7424), 418–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Halfar, J., & Fujita, R. M. (2007). Ecology. Danger of deep-sea mining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 987.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, X., Wang, Y., & Xia, Y. (2014). Re-building Daniell cell with a Li-ion exchange film. Scientific Reports, 4, 6916.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mikkelsen, T. S., Hanna, J., Zhang, X., Ku, M., Wernig, M., Schorderet, P., Bernstein, B. E., Jaenisch, R., Lander, E. S., & Meissner, A. (2008). Dissecting direct reprogramming through integrative genomic analysis. Nature, 454(7200), 49–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steenbarger, B. N. (2015). Trading Psychology 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hassanien, A. E., Tolba, M. F., & Taher Azar, A. (Eds.). (2014). Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications: Second International Conference, AMLTA 2014, Cairo, Egypt, November 28-30, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 488). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehlotra, R. K., & Zimmerman, P. A. (2006). Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs: Parasite and Host Genetic Factors. In P. Arese (Ed.), Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects (pp. 81–124). 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 School Psychology Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 19). Tool Use in Dolphins has Shaped Their Genetic Make Up. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tool-use-dolphins-has-shaped-their-genetic-make/

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. (1980). The National Institute of Education Should Further Increase Minority and Female Participation in Its Activities (HRD-81-3). 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

Damiano, E. S. (2010). The effects of psychological stress on physical health over time [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

Hubbard, B. (2016, October 15). Saudi-Led Coalition Admits Error in Funeral Bombing in Yemen. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Batygin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Batygin, 2012; Halfar & Fujita, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Halfar & Fujita, 2007)
Three authors: (Dong et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Mikkelsen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	School Psychology Quarterly
Abbreviation	Sch. Psychol. Q.
ISSN (print)	1045-3830
ISSN (online)	1939-1560
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education