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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Psychophysiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Maxmen, A., 2015. Three technologies that changed genetics. Nature 528, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, L.V., Hu, S., 2012. Photoacoustic tomography: in vivo imaging from organelles to organs. Science 335, 1458–1462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A., 2012. Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture. Nature 485, 229–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Robertson, W.H., Diken, E.G., Price, E.A., Shin, J.-W., Johnson, M.A., 2003. Spectroscopic determination of the OH- solvation shell in the OH-.(H2O)n clusters. Science 299, 1367–1372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benatar, D., 2012. The Second Sexism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Evans, N., 2015. A Systematic Review of Rural Development Research: Characteristics, Design Quality and Engagement with Sustainability, SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Demetriades, A.K., Ringel, F., Meyer, B., 2014. Cervical Disc Arthroplasty: A Critical Review and Appraisal of the Latest Available Evidence, in: Schramm, J. (Ed.), Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 41, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 107–129.

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 Psychophysiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. NASA Wants To Start Refueling Satellites In Earth Orbit By 2020 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-wants-to-start-refueling-satellites-in-earth-orbit-by-2020/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Public Schools: Insufficient Research to Determine Effectiveness of Selected Private Education Companies (No. GAO-03-11). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson, M.E., 2010. Where are the parents: The parent’s perspective of parental involvement in education (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Conflicts for Justices Halt Appeal in Apartheid Case. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Maxmen, 2015; Wang and Hu, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Hu, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Robertson et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Psychophysiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0167-8760
Scope	Physiology (medical) General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology