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

Adams, W. M. (2014). Conservation. The value of valuing nature. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 549–551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., & Bradford, M. (2007). 2007 visualization challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1857.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza, M., Succi, S., & Herrmann, H. J. (2013). Flow through randomly curved manifolds. Scientific Reports, 3, 3106.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W. H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., & Wynn, J. G. (2006). A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature, 443(7109), 296–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel, R. (2005). Psychopharmacology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Levitt, S. H., Purdy, J. A., Perez, C. A., & Poortmans, P. (Eds.). (2012). Technical Basis of Radiation Therapy: Practical Clinical Applications. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guitar, J. (2015). Glee Goes Gaga. In B. C. Johnson & D. K. Faill (Eds.), Glee and New Directions for Social Change (pp. 61–68). 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

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 30). China To Build World’s Most Powerful Super-Collider In 2020. 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). Business Systems Modernization: IRS Has Made Significant Progress in Improving Its Management Controls, but Risks Remain (GAO-03-768). 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

Forlano, L. (2008). When code meets place: Collaboration and innovation at WiFi hotspots [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Markoff, J. (2017, January 20). After a Retirement, Putting to Bed The Times’s First Email Address. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adams, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Adams, 2014; Nesbit & Bradford, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit & Bradford, 2007)
Three authors: (Mendoza et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Alemseged et al., 2006)

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