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

Hamilton, W. B. (2007). Comment on “A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5851), 746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shneiderman, B., & Preece, J. (2007). Public health. 911.gov. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5814), 944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas, R. E., Antony, C., & Nurse, P. (2005). The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 297–300.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, J. T., Comans, R. N., Beresford, N. A., Wright, S. M., Howard, B. J., & Camplin, W. C. (2000). Chernobyl’s legacy in food and water. Nature, 405(6783), 141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). (2011). Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gibbons, M. C., Bali, R., & Wickramasinghe, N. (Eds.). (2010). Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health (Vol. 1). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crowston, K., & Shamshurin, I. (2016). Core-Periphery Communication and the Success of Free/Libre Open Source Software Projects. In K. Crowston, I. Hammouda, B. Lundell, G. Robles, J. Gamalielsson, & J. Lindman (Eds.), Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 45–56). 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 Psychologist-Manager Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 7). Gravitational Wave Discovery Still Clouded By Galactic Dust. 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. (2011). Commercial Launch Vehicles: NASA Taking Measures to Manage Delays and Risks (GAO-11-692T). 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

Martinez, N. M. (2010). The influence of formal and informal support on the quality of life of individuals with a severe mental illness [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

Gregory Mankiw, N., & Summers, L. H. (2015, October 24). Uniting Behind a Divisive Health Tax. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hamilton, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hamilton, 2007; Shneiderman & Preece, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Shneiderman & Preece, 2007)
Three authors: (Carazo-Salas et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Smith et al., 2000)

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