How to format your references using the Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne. 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 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

Abbott, A. (2000). CERN considers chasing up hints of Higgs boson. European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Nature, 407(6800), 8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubrulle, J., & Pourquié, O. (2004). fgf8 mRNA decay establishes a gradient that couples axial elongation to patterning in the vertebrate embryo. Nature, 427(6973), 419–422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dietz, T., Ostrom, E., & Stern, P. C. (2003). The struggle to govern the commons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1907–1912.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sobol, R. W., Prasad, R., Evenski, A., Baker, A., Yang, X. P., Horton, J. K., & Wilson, S. H. (2000). The lyase activity of the DNA repair protein beta-polymerase protects from DNA-damage-induced cytotoxicity. Nature, 405(6788), 807–810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo, J. B., & Lin, S.-C. (2002). Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schulz, H. D., & Zabel, M. (Eds.). (2006). Marine Geochemistry (2nd revised, updated and extended edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Keeton, J. T. (2011). History of Nitrite and Nitrate in Food. In N. S. Bryan & J. Loscalzo (Eds.), Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Health and Disease (pp. 69–84). Humana Press.

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 Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 11). How We Can Make Super-Fast Hyperloop Travel a Reality. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-we-can-make-superfast-hyperloop-travel-a-reality/

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. (1993). Direct Student Loans: The Department of Education’s Implementation of Direct Lending (T-HRD-93-26). 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

Shrank, S. M. (2017). ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal [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

Saslow, L. (2007, February 25). Oyster Bay Villages Create 2 Emergency Centers. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2000; Dubrulle & Pourquié, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dubrulle & Pourquié, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sobol et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
Abbreviation	Can. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0708-5591
ISSN (online)	1878-7304
Scope	General Psychology