How to format your references using the The Humanistic Psychologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Humanistic Psychologist. 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

Finney, C. (2015). Conservation economics. Comment on “Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewcock, J. W., & Reed, R. R. (2003). Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653), 2078–2079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hainzl, T., Huang, S., & Sauer-Eriksson, A. E. (2002). Structure of the SRP19 RNA complex and implications for signal recognition particle assembly. Nature, 417(6890), 767–771.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Garcia-Viloca, M., Gao, J., Karplus, M., & Truhlar, D. G. (2004). How enzymes work: analysis by modern rate theory and computer simulations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5655), 186–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coates, M., & Jenkins, B. (2010). Electrical Installation Calculations: For Compliance with BS 7671:2008. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Steinhoff, G. (Ed.). (2016). Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 4. Regenerative Therapies I (3rd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kolokotronis, N., Limniotis, K., & Kalouptsidis, N. (2007). Efficient Computation of the Best Quadratic Approximations of Cubic Boolean Functions. In S. D. Galbraith (Ed.), Cryptography and Coding: 11th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 18-20, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 73–91). 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 The Humanistic Psychologist.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 19). Iguanas Have Bird-Like Lungs. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/iguanas-have-bird-lungs/

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. (1994). Interstate Commerce Commission: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed in Determining Future of ICC’s Regulatory Functions (T-RCED-94-261). 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

Collins, K. (2014). Learning to live in the layers: Traveling soul’s way through poetry [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, June 3). No Ruling Means No Change For Fantasy Baseball Leagues. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finney, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Finney, 2015; Lewcock & Reed, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lewcock & Reed, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Viloca et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Humanistic Psychologist
ISSN (print)	0887-3267
ISSN (online)	1547-3333
Scope