How to format your references using the Experimental Psychology citation style

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

Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2008). Psychology. Trust me on this. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5890), 778–780.

A journal article with 2 authors

Regoes, R. R., & Bonhoeffer, S. (2006). Emergence of drug-resistant influenza virus: population dynamical considerations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5772), 389–391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, L., Teruya-Feldstein, J., & Weinberg, R. A. (2007). Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer. Nature, 449(7163), 682–688.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Oliver, W. D., Yu, Y., Lee, J. C., Berggren, K. K., Levitov, L. S., & Orlando, T. P. (2005). Mach-Zehnder interferometry in a strongly driven superconducting qubit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5754), 1653–1657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, K. (2008). The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Akasaka, T., Osuka, A., Fukuzumi, S., Kandori, H., & Aso, Y. (Eds.). (2015). Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems (1st ed. 2015). Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Tajima, K., & Aminov, R. (2015). Structure and Function of a Nonruminant Gut: A Porcine Model. In A. K. Puniya, R. Singh, & D. N. Kamra (Eds.), Rumen Microbiology: From Evolution to Revolution (pp. 47–75). Springer India.

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 Experimental Psychology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, June 6). This Startup Cleans Up Algae From Infested Lakes And Uses It To Make Shoes. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-startup-cleans-up-algae-from-infested-lakes-and-uses-it-to-make-shoes/

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. (1984). Reasons for Lack of Replacement for Failed Weather Satellite (RCED-84-198). 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

Voma, S. K. (2017). Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications [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

Gorman, J. (2017, October 13). The Call of the Wild. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer-Lindenberg, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer-Lindenberg, 2008; Regoes & Bonhoeffer, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Regoes & Bonhoeffer, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Oliver et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Psychology
Abbreviation	Exp. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1618-3169
ISSN (online)	2190-5142
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology