How to format your references using the Training and Education in Professional Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Training and Education in Professional 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Konecky, B. (2015). Palaeoclimate: Monsoon matters. Nature, 517(7535), 445–446.
A journal article with 2 authors
Panian, J., & Wiltschko, D. (2004). Ramp initiation in a thrust wedge. Nature, 427(6975), 624–627.
A journal article with 3 authors
Hellberg, M. E., Balch, D. P., & Roy, K. (2001). Climate-driven range expansion and morphological evolution in a marine gastropod. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1707–1710.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Chen, D., Cane, M. A., Kaplan, A., Zebiak, S. E., & Huang, D. (2004). Predictability of El Niño over the past 148 years. Nature, 428(6984), 733–736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gavin, H., & Porter, T. (2014). Female Aggression. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Mey, D. an, Alexander, M., Bientinesi, P., Cannataro, M., Clauss, C., Costan, A., Kecskemeti, G., Morin, C., Ricci, L., Sahuquillo, J., Schulz, M., Scarano, V., Scott, S. L., & Weidendorfer, J. (Eds.). (2014). Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops: BigDataCloud, DIHC, FedICI, HeteroPar, HiBB, LSDVE, MHPC, OMHI, PADABS, PROPER, Resilience, ROME, and UCHPC 2013, Aachen, Germany, August 26-27, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8374). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Gobert, J., & Punch, M. (2007). Because They Can. In H. N. Pontell & G. Geis (Eds.), International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (pp. 98–122). Springer US.

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 Training and Education in Professional Psychology.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2014, July 1). Modified Red Blood Cells As Cargo Ships. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modified-red-blood-cells-cargo-ships/

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. (1982). The Need for a Better Trained EDP Auditor (117740). 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
Winton, T. W. (2015). Student and Teacher Perceptions of Standards-based Grading and Student Performance [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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
Kanter, J. (2016, September 20). E.U. Opens Investigation of French Utility’s Taxes. 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 (Konecky, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Konecky, 2015; Panian & Wiltschko, 2004).

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

  • Two authors: (Panian & Wiltschko, 2004)
  • Three authors: (Hellberg et al., 2001)
  • 6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleTraining and Education in Professional Psychology
AbbreviationTrain. Educ. Prof. Psychol.
ISSN (print)1931-3918
ISSN (online)1931-3926
ScopeGeneral Psychology
Education

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