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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Quarterly Journal of Experimental 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	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

Keller, R. (2012). Developmental biology. Physical biology returns to morphogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 201–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gravitz, L., & Pincock, S. (2014). Sickle-cell disease. Nature, 515(7526), S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gorb, E. V., Baum, M. J., & Gorb, S. N. (2013). Development and regeneration ability of the wax coverage in Nepenthes alata pitchers: a cryo-SEM approach. Scientific Reports, 3, 3078.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vollrath, F., Hawkins, N., Porter, D., Holland, C., & Boulet-Audet, M. (2014). Differential Scanning Fluorimetry provides high throughput data on silk protein transitions. Scientific Reports, 4, 5625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carver, R. H., & Tai, K.-C. (2005). Modern Multithreading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rivest, L., Bouras, A., & Louhichi, B. (Eds.). (2012). Product Lifecycle Management. Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises: IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9-11, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 388). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Veronesi, G. (2015). Thoracic Surgery. In G. Spinoglio (Ed.), Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends (pp. 29–39). Springer.

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 Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 17). Life’s Building Blocks May Have Arisen Simultaneously. 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. (2010). Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Sustained Attention Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant Programs (GAO-10-659T). 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

Couch, H. C. (2017). Providers’ Acceptance of Smartphone Applications as a Supportive Strategy for Adolescent Asthma [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Wieviorka, M. (2017, February 10). France, at a loss without a struggle. New York Times, 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz & Pincock, 2014; Keller, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gravitz & Pincock, 2014)
Three authors: (Gorb et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Vollrath et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Abbreviation	Q. J. Exp. Psychol. (Hove)
ISSN (print)	1747-0218
ISSN (online)	1747-0226
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Physiology (medical) General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology