How to format your references using the American Journal of Community Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Community 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Haucke, V. (2015). Cell biology: On the endocytosis rollercoaster. Nature, 517(7535), 446–447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imambekov, A., & Glazman, L. I. (2009). Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5911), 228–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, H. W., 2nd, Chen, W.-P., & Brudzinski, M. R. (2010). Seismic evidence of negligible water carried below 400-km depth in subducting lithosphere. Nature, 467(7317), 828–831.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choi, C. M., Vilain, S., Langen, M., Van Kelst, S., De Geest, N., Yan, J., et al. (2009). Conditional mutagenesis in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5923), 54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne, P. (2017). World Religions in Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gargaud, M. (2012). Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology. (H. Martin, P. López-García, T. Montmerle, & R. Pascal, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, S.-J., & Lee, S.-Y. (2016). Injection Molding for Multicomponent Materials. In J. K. Kim, S. Thomas, & P. Saha (Eds.), Multicomponent Polymeric Materials (pp. 79–107). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 American Journal of Community Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, December 13). Scientists Investigate Mysterious “Crater” In Antarctica. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-crater-in-antarctica-likely-formed-by-wind-not-meteorite/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1990). John P. Abbadessa, 1947-1962 (No. OP-18-OH). Washington, DC: 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

Brown, M. H. (2014). An Examination of Executive Function, Stress, and Adolescent Attachment to Caregivers in a Social Neuroscience Model Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Waldstein, D. (2016, October 19). Cleveland’s Renaissance Reaches the World Series. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haucke 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Haucke 2015; Imambekov and Glazman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Imambekov and Glazman 2009)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Community Psychology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Community Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0091-0562
ISSN (online)	1573-2770
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Applied Psychology Health(social science)