How to format your references using the European Journal of Psychological Assessment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 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

Scanlon, J. D. (2006). Skull of the large non-macrostomatan snake Yurlunggur from the Australian Oligo-Miocene. Nature, 439(7078), 839–842.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, H. Y., & Gao, X. (2013). A universal protein tag for delivery of SiRNA-aptamer chimeras. Scientific Reports, 3, 3129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sale, J. E., Patel, K. J., & Batista, F. D. (2013). Retrospective. Michael Neuberger (1953-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1335.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Moernaut, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G. H., & CHALLACEA project members. (2009). Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator. Nature, 462(7273), 637–641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soprano, A. (2015). Liquidity Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Weichold, M., Hamdi, M., Shakir, M. Z., Abdallah, M., Karagiannidis, G. K., & Ismail, M. (Eds.). (2015). Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks: 10th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2015, Doha, Qatar, April 21-23, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 156). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cope, B., Cheung, P. Y. K., Luk, W., & Howes, L. (2011). A Systematic Design Space Exploration Approach to Customising Multi-Processor Architectures: Exemplified Using Graphics Processors. In P. Stenström (Ed.), Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers IV (pp. 63–83). Springer.

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 European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 26). What’s The Point Of Sex? It’s Good For Your Physical, Social And Mental Health. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whats-the-point-of-sex-its-good-for-your-physical-social-and-mental-health/

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. (1977). National Science Foundation’s Actions on Recommendations of GAO Report “Opportunities for Improved Management of the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) Program” (HRD-77-54). 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

Simsic, G. (2012). Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Kinsley, M. (2017, April 29). The Upside to the Presidential Twitter Feed. New York Times, SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scanlon, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Gao, 2013; Scanlon, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Gao, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Verschuren et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Psychol. Assess.
ISSN (print)	1015-5759
ISSN (online)	2151-2426
Scope	Applied Psychology