How to format your references using the Translational Issues in Psychological Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Issues in Psychological Science. 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

Clyne, R. (2004). Industry and interns. The intern experience. Nature, 431(7008), 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Westhof, E., & Massire, C. (2004). Structural biology. Evolution of RNA architecture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5693), 62–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson, D. E., Holcombe, M., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks. Nature, 432(7019), 907–909.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, X., Wu, Y., Steel, D., Gammon, D., Stievater, T. H., Katzer, D. S., Park, D., Piermarocchi, C., & Sham, L. J. (2003). An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 809–811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis, H., & Lawson, A. (2013). Anatomy for Anaesthetists. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Barceló, J., & Kuwahara, M. (Eds.). (2010). Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (Vol. 144). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Refsdal, A., Solhaug, B., & Stølen, K. (2015). Cybersecurity. In B. Solhaug & K. Stølen (Eds.), Cyber-Risk Management (pp. 29–32). 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 Translational Issues in Psychological Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 9). Chilean Government Releases An Unexplainable “UFO Sighting” Video. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/chilean-government-releases-an-unexplainable-ufo-sighting-video/

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. (1994). Illegal Aliens: Assessing Estimates of Financial Burden on California (HEHS-95-22). 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

Hawkins, A. J. (2013). Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2009, May 28). Modern Dance and Art Bring a Burst of Color to a Gray City. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clyne, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Clyne, 2004; Westhof & Massire, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Westhof & Massire, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Translational Issues in Psychological Science
ISSN (print)	2332-2136
ISSN (online)	2332-2179
Scope