How to format your references using the Swiss Journal of Psychology citation style

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

Nilsen, T. W. (2014). Molecular biology. Internal mRNA methylation finally finds functions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6176), 1207–1208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindvall, O., & Hyun, I. (2009). Medical innovation versus stem cell tourism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1664–1665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amari, T., Canou, A., & Aly, J.-J. (2014). Characterizing and predicting the magnetic environment leading to solar eruptions. Nature, 514(7523), 465–469.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Voets, T., Droogmans, G., Wissenbach, U., Janssens, A., Flockerzi, V., & Nilius, B. (2004). The principle of temperature-dependent gating in cold- and heat-sensitive TRP channels. Nature, 430(7001), 748–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia, J. E. (2011). Dynamic Economic Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Martino, F. (2006). Ecografia dell’apparato osteoarticolare: Anatomia, semeiotica e quadri patologici (E. Silvestri, W. Grassi, & G. Garlaschi, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansen, H. P., & Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T. (2013). Who, How, and What? Quality of Life and Psychosocial Cancer Research. In N. Warren & L. Manderson (Eds.), Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective (pp. 79–93). 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 Swiss Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 6). Rosetta Arrives at Comet After 10 Year Voyage. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-arrives-comet-after-10-year-voyage/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Education Taking Needed Actions But Work Remains (T-AIMD-99-180). 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

Gill, G. J. (2009). The experience of family caregiving of the terminally ill: A phenomenological study [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

Baker, P., Schmidt, M. S., & Haberman, M. (2017, July 19). Trump Lashes Out At Russia Inquiry And Its Overseers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nilsen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lindvall & Hyun, 2009; Nilsen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lindvall & Hyun, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Voets et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Swiss Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Swiss J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1421-0185
ISSN (online)	1662-0879
Scope	General Psychology