How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 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

Pauly, D. (2007). Obituary: Ransom Aldrich Myers (1952-2007). Nature, 447(7141), 160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alexander, T., & Natarajan, P. (2014). Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6202), 1330–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riemer, J., Bulleid, N., & Herrmann, J. M. (2009). Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1284–1287.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Aizenberg, J., Weaver, J. C., Thanawala, M. S., Sundar, V. C., Morse, D. E., & Fratzl, P. (2005). Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: structural hierarchy from the nanoscale to the macroscale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 275–278.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michael, E., Gillian, H., Stefan, K., & Alex, L. (2012). Gramsci. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Zeadally, S., Cerqueira, E., Curado, M., & Leszczuk, M. (Eds.). (2010). Future Multimedia Networking: Third International Workshop, FMN 2010, Kraków, Poland, June 17-18, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6157). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wolpert, D., & Ampadu, P. (2009). Normal and Reverse Temperature Dependence in Variation-Tolerant Nanoscale Systems with High-k Dielectrics and Metal Gates. In M. Cheng (Ed.), Nano-Net: Third International ICST Conference, NanoNet 2008, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 14–18). 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 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, May 25). Antibiotic Cow Farts Contain More Methane. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antibiotic-cow-farts-are-greenhouse-gassier-according-study/

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. (2001). U.S. Infrastructure: Funding Trends and Federal Agencies’ Investment Estimates (GAO-01-986T). 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

Cusick, J. A. (2012). Does size really matter? How synchrony and size affect the dynamic of aggression between two sympatric species of dolphin in the Bahamas [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, July 18). Comics Put the Pow In Power. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pauly, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alexander & Natarajan, 2014; Pauly, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Alexander & Natarajan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Aizenberg et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
ISSN (print)	0097-7403
ISSN (online)	1939-2184
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