How to format your references using the International Journal of Psychology citation style

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

Clark, J. (2009). Paleontology. Becoming T. rex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 373–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dong, K. C., & Berger, J. M. (2007). Structural basis for gate-DNA recognition and bending by type IIA topoisomerases. Nature, 450(7173), 1201–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lü, L., Zhang, Z.-K., & Zhou, T. (2013). Deviation of Zipf’s and Heaps’ Laws in human languages with limited dictionary sizes. Scientific Reports, 3, 1082.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chen, Q., Wei, C., Zhang, Y., Pang, H., Lu, Q., & Gao, F. (2014). Single-crystalline hyperbranched nanostructure of iron hydroxyl phosphate Fe5(PO4)4(OH)3·2H2O for highly selective capture of phosphopeptides. Scientific Reports, 4, 3753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Natsuno, T. (2005). i-Mode Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hage, J. C., & Pfordten, D. von der (Eds.). (2009). Concepts in Law (Vol. 88). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Aichernig, B. K., Lorber, F., & Tappler, M. (2016). Conformance Checking of Real-Time Models. In E. Ábrahám, M. Bonsangue, & E. B. Johnsen (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (pp. 15–32). 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 International Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, April 17). Meteorites Indicate Early Martian Atmosphere. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorites-indicate-early-martian-atmosphere/

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. (2002). DCPS: Limitation of Attorneys’ Fees for Fiscal Years 1999 through 2001 (GAO-03-224R). 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

Schreiber, J. S. (2016). Discursive constructions of decline: Narratives of illness and financial stress among residents in assisted living [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, September 30). A Tiger and a Yankee Ponder Baseball’s Thrilling Finishes. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clark, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Clark, 2009; Dong & Berger, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dong & Berger, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0020-7594
ISSN (online)	1464-066X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology