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

Hapgood, M. (2012). Astrophysics: Prepare for the coming space weather storm. Nature, 484(7394), 311–313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zehr, J. P., & Kudela, R. M. (2009). Ocean science. Photosynthesis in the open ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5955), 945–946.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyazaki, T., Sueyoshi, K., & Hiraga, T. (2013). Olivine crystals align during diffusion creep of Earth’s upper mantle. Nature, 502(7471), 321–326.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bao, S., Wu, Q., McLendon, R. E., Hao, Y., Shi, Q., Hjelmeland, A. B., Dewhirst, M. W., Bigner, D. D., & Rich, J. N. (2006). Glioma stem cells promote radioresistance by preferential activation of the DNA damage response. Nature, 444(7120), 756–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie, D., & Hewitt, I. (2015). Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Griffiths, T. G., & Millei, Z. (Eds.). (2013). Logics of Socialist Education: Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty (Vol. 24). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sontz, S. B. (2014). Toeplitz Quantization without Measure or Inner Product. In P. Kielanowski, P. Bieliavsky, A. Odesskii, A. Odzijewicz, M. Schlichenmaier, & T. Voronov (Eds.), Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 30-July 6, 2013 (pp. 57–66). 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 Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 24). Astronomers Have Mapped Our Adolescent Universe in 3D. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-mapped-our-adolescent-universe-3d/

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. (1995). School Finance: Trends in U.S. Education Spending (HEHS-95-235). 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

Ayres, R. (2017). Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Koblin, J. (2016, September 19). Marcia Clark Has Moment to Savor at Emmys. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hapgood, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hapgood, 2012; Zehr & Kudela, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zehr & Kudela, 2009)
Three authors: (Miyazaki et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Bao et al., 2006)

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