How to format your references using the Current Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current 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	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

Litchinitser, N. M. (2012). Applied physics. Structured light meets structured matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1054–1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., & Bradford, M. (2007). 2007 visualization challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1857.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pobbati, A. V., Stein, A., & Fasshauer, D. (2006). N- to C-terminal SNARE complex assembly promotes rapid membrane fusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 673–676.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bourlat, S. J., Nielsen, C., Lockyer, A. E., Littlewood, D. T. J., & Telford, M. J. (2003). Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature, 424(6951), 925–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, A. H., & Reade, J. P. H. (2010). Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bowen, W. (2016). Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging. (M. Moran & D. Esfandiary, Eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Nikookar, H., & Prasad, R. (2009). Ultra Wide Band Wireless Channels. In R. Prasad (Ed.), Introduction to Ultra Wideband for Wireless Communications (pp. 43–65). 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 Current Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, May 5). Watch SpaceX’s Barge Landing In This Breathtaking 360 Video. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1987). Hazardous Weather Detection and Warning Systems (No. T-RCED-87-38). 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

Akers, K. (2017). The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Itzkoff, D., Bai, M., Levin, B., Hodgman, J., Reeves, H., Newton, M., et al. (2012, April 1). The One Page Magazine. New York Times, p. MM9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Litchinitser 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Litchinitser 2012; Nesbit and Bradford 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit and Bradford 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bourlat et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Psychology
Abbreviation	Curr. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1046-1310
ISSN (online)	1936-4733
Scope	General Psychology