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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social 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	Download the output style file
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

Currey, John D. 2005. “Materials Science. Hierarchies in Biomineral Structures.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5732):253–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morriswood, Brooke, and Graham Warren. 2013. “Cell Biology. Stalemate in the Golgi Battle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6153):1465–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, Laura K. G., Matthew M. Lovell, and Daniel J. Weix. 2015. “Multimetallic Catalysed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Bromides with Aryl Triflates.” Nature 524(7566):454–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nowoshilow, Sergej, Siegfried Schloissnig, Ji-Feng Fei, Andreas Dahl, Andy W. C. Pang, Martin Pippel, Sylke Winkler, Alex R. Hastie, George Young, Juliana G. Roscito, Francisco Falcon, Dunja Knapp, Sean Powell, Alfredo Cruz, Han Cao, Bianca Habermann, Michael Hiller, Elly M. Tanaka, and Eugene W. Myers. 2018. “The Axolotl Genome and the Evolution of Key Tissue Formation Regulators.” Nature 554(7690):50–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, Vincent. 2010. Community Banking Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hackney, Philip. 2015. Infinity Properads and Infinity Wheeled Properads. Vol. 2147. 1st ed. 2015. edited by M. Robertson and D. Yau. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Albritton, Karen H., and Tim Eden. 2007. “Access to Care Before and During Therapy.” Pp. 61–69 in Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults, Pediatric Oncology, edited by W. A. Bleyer and R. D. Barr. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Social Psychology Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “What Are Brain-Eating Amoebas And How Can We Reduce Their Harm?” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018.

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. 2008. Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System. GAO-08-440. Washington, DC: 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

O’Grady, Caitlin Rose. 2009. “Journeys of Our Ancestors: Conservation Science Approaches to the Analysis of Cultural Material.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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, Ben. 2016. “Aleppo Reeling as Air Assaults Are Stepped Up.” New York Times, September 23, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Currey 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Currey 2005; Morriswood and Warren 2013).

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

Two authors: (Morriswood and Warren 2013)
Three authors: (Ackerman, Lovell, and Weix 2015)
4 or more authors: (Nowoshilow et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Psychology Quarterly
Abbreviation	Soc. Psychol. Q.
ISSN (print)	0190-2725
Scope	Social Psychology