How to format your references using the International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. 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

Bohannon, J. (2011). The Science Hall of Fame. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6014), 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, P. J., & Steinhardt, P. J. (2007). Decagonal and quasi-crystalline tilings in medieval Islamic architecture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5815), 1106–1110.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morewedge, C. K., Huh, Y. E., & Vosgerau, J. (2010). Thought for food: imagined consumption reduces actual consumption. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6010), 1530–1533.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chavarria, J. A., Malin, P., Catchings, R. D., & Shalev, E. (2003). A look inside the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield through vertical seismic profiling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651), 1746–1748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacava, A., Bogucki, J., Bedrytski, A., de Detrich, M., & Neil, B. (2016). Professional Scala. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Thalmann, D. (2007). Crowd Simulation (S. R. Musse, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Roth, D., Peretz, H., & Barak, D. (2016). How Stigma Affects Us: The Voice of Self-advocates. In K. Scior & S. Werner (Eds.), Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins (pp. 49–59). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 29). Scientist At Work: Mathematician Collects Ocean And Glacier Data In The Field To Make Climate Models In The Lab. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientist-work-mathematician-collects-ocean-and-glacier-data-field-make-climate-models/

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. (1974). What Is the Role of Federal Assistance for Vocational Education? (MWD-75-31). 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

Sanchez-Mejia, Z. M. (2013). Monsoon dependent ecosystems: Implications of the vertical distribution of soil moisture on land surface-atmosphere interactions [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2016, December 31). Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2011; Lu & Steinhardt, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lu & Steinhardt, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chavarria et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation
Abbreviation	Int. Perspect. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2157-3883
ISSN (online)	2157-3891
Scope