How to format your references using the The Psychological Record citation style

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

Thamdrup, B. (2007). Geochemistry. New players in an ancient cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1508–1509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kalcheim, C., & Rohrer, H. (2014). Neuroscience. Following the same nerve track toward different cell fates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis, G., Rosakis, A. J., & Ravichandran, G. (2006). Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1765–1768.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Muto, A., Tashiro, S., Nakajima, O., Hoshino, H., Takahashi, S., Sakoda, E., et al. (2004). The transcriptional programme of antibody class switching involves the repressor Bach2. Nature, 429(6991), 566–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bleistein, S. (2017). Rapid Organizational Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Leon F. de Carvalho, A. P. de, Rodríguez-González, S., Paz Santana, J. F. D., & Rodríguez, J. M. C. (Eds.). (2010). Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Symposium (Vol. 79). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casado-Sanz, E., Barco-Laakso, R., Antuña, S., & Rodríguez-Merchán, E. C. (2015). Shoulder Surgery in Hemophilia. In E. C. Rodríguez-Merchán (Ed.), Joint Surgery in the Adult Patient with Hemophilia (pp. 37–42). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Psychological Record.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, February 10). NASA Captures Image Of Winter Storm Blanketing Northeastern US. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-captures-image-winter-storm-blanketing-northeastern-us/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2012). Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Changing Requirements, Technical Issues, and Looming Data Gaps Require Focused Attention (No. GAO-12-604). 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

Tzillah, A. (2009). The emissions of selected air pollutants from biodiesel fuel usage (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Cowley, S. (2017, July 19). New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry on Student Debt. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thamdrup 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kalcheim and Rohrer 2014; Thamdrup 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kalcheim and Rohrer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Muto et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Psychological Record
Abbreviation	Psychol. Rec.
ISSN (print)	0033-2933
ISSN (online)	2163-3452
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology