How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied citation style

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

Foster, I. (2005). Service-oriented science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5723), 814–817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang, L., & Karin, M. (2001). Mammalian MAP kinase signalling cascades. Nature, 410(6824), 37–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shipley, B., Vile, D., & Garnier, E. (2006). From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 812–814.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sharma, K. K., Shrivastava, B., Sastry, V. R. B., Sehgal, N., & Kuhad, R. C. (2013). Middle-redox potential laccase from Ganoderma sp.: its application in improvement of feed for monogastric animals. Scientific Reports, 3, 1299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J. M. (2014). Wiley Gaap 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Omar, H. A. (2014). Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications (W. Zhuang, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeltz, C., Lu, N., & Gullberg, D. (2014). Integrin α11β1: A Major Collagen Receptor on Fibroblastic Cells. In D. Gullberg (Ed.), I Domain Integrins (pp. 73–83). Springer Netherlands.

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: Applied.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 18). 65-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth To Quadruplets. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ivf-quadruplets-delivered-65-year-old-woman/

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. (2000). State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing (NSIAD-00-83). 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

Gonzaga Reed, R. R. (2017). The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, April 3). JUSTICES SAY E.P.A. HAS POWER TO ACT ON HARMFUL GASES. 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 (Foster, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chang & Karin, 2001; Foster, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chang & Karin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sharma et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1076-898X
ISSN (online)	1939-2192
Scope	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology