How to format your references using the The Psychologist-Manager Journal citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2001). Pharmacogenetics initiative galvanizes public and private sectors. Nature, 410(6826), 393–394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Calais, E., & Stein, S. (2009). Time-variable deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet, J. C., Barois, P., & Poulin, P. (2000). Colloidal ordering from phase separation in a liquid-crystalline continuous phase. Nature, 407(6804), 611–613.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Asanuma, H., Kakishima, S., Ito, H., Kobayashi, K., Hasegawa, E., Asami, T., Matsuura, K., Roff, D. A., & Yoshimura, J. (2014). Evolutionary optimality in sex differences of longevity and athletic performances. Scientific Reports, 4, 5425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakker, J., & Clarke, R. J. (2011). Wine Flavour Chemistry. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnakone, P., Balali-Mood, M., Llewellyn, L., & Singh, B. R. (Eds.). (2015). Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism (Vol. 1). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Blackburn, M., & Finnigan, V. (2015). All Systems Go to a Global Outlook. In W. Green & C. Whitsed (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Internationalising the Curriculum in Disciplines: Reflective Narrative Accounts from Business, Education and Health (pp. 59–72). SensePublishers.

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 Psychologist-Manager Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, May 10). Two-Thirds Of Germany Was Powered By Renewable Energy On Easter Sunday. 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. (2003). Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives (GAO-03-1169T). 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

Mbwiri, F. I. (2017). Remedial Math Instruction Intervention: Efficacy of Constructivist Practices on Alternative Students with Disabilities Mathematics Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr. (2017, May 11). A Murder Trial in Which the Gunman Is Unknown. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Calais & Stein, 2009; Smaglik, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Calais & Stein, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Asanuma et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Psychologist-Manager Journal
Abbreviation	Psychol. Manag. J.
ISSN (print)	1088-7156
ISSN (online)	1550-3461
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Applied Psychology Social Psychology