How to format your references using the Annual Review of Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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

Piperno DR. 2001. Archaeology. On maize and the sunflower. Science. 292(5525):2260–61

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowland JM, Emlen DJ. 2009. Two thresholds, three male forms result in facultative male trimorphism in beetles. Science. 323(5915):773–76

A journal article with 3 authors

He Y, Michaels SD, Amasino RM. 2003. Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science. 302(5651):1751–54

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ge Z, Bergonci T, Zhao Y, Zou Y, Du S, et al. 2017. Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity and sperm release are regulated by RALF-mediated signaling. Science. 358(6370):1596–1600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik B, Roy DM. 2005. Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kandouz M, ed. 2015. Intercellular Communication in Cancer. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 1st ed. 2015 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen TBT, Thi HAL, Le HM, Vo XT. 2015. DC Approximation Approach for ℓ0-minimization in Compressed Sensing. In Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications - ICCSAMA 2015, eds. HA Le Thi, NT Nguyen, TV Do, pp. 37–48. Cham: 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 Annual Review of Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2013. Eyes on the Skies: Orionid Meteor Shower. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1998. Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments. AA-98-18(2), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Seegmiller Renner A. 2017. Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella 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

Greenhouse L. 2008. Court Weighs Right to Guns, And Its Limits. New York Times, March 19, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piperno 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Piperno 2001; Rowland & Emlen 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rowland & Emlen 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ge et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Psychology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4308
ISSN (online)	1545-2085
Scope	General Psychology