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

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

King, M.-C. (2014). “The race” to clone BRCA1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1462–1465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flanagan, J. R., & Johansson, R. S. (2003). Action plans used in action observation. Nature, 424(6950), 769–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chave, J., Alonso, D., & Etienne, R. S. (2006). Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature, 441(7089), E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shang, Y., Liu, C., Cui, D., Han, G., & Yi, S. (2014). The effect of chronic bacterial prostatitis on semen quality in adult men: a meta-analysis of case-control studies. Scientific Reports, 4, 7233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann, R. B. (2010). Classic and Advanced Ceramics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Natarajan, J. (2012). Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer’s Guide (R. Bruchez, S. Shaw, & M. Coles, Eds.; Third Edition). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Canali, S., & Corbellini, G. (2006). Clinical, Epidemiological, and Genetic Investigations on Thalassemia and Malaria in Italy. In P. Arese (Ed.), Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects (pp. 55–80). 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 The Irish Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 10). One In Eight Children Currently At Risk Of Measles In The U.S. 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. (1998). Surface Transportation: Improvements in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey (RCED-98-90R). 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

Hatcher, R. (2012). Guide to improvisation for Mozart’s serenade in Bb Major, K. 361, the “Gran Partita” [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

Wines, M., & Williams, T. (2014, February 7). Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Flanagan & Johansson, 2003; King, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Flanagan & Johansson, 2003)
Three authors: (Chave et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Shang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Irish Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Ir. J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0303-3910
ISSN (online)	2158-0812
Scope	General Psychology