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

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

Kivelson, M. G. (2006). Does Enceladus govern magnetospheric dynamics at Saturn? Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5766), 1391–1392.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratcliff, W. C., & Denison, R. F. (2011). Microbiology. Alternative actions for antibiotics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 547–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richards-Kortum, R., Gray, L. V., & Oden, M. (2012). IBI* series winner. Engaging undergraduates in global health technology innovation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6080), 430–431.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jones, K. E., Patel, N. G., Levy, M. A., Storeygard, A., Balk, D., Gittleman, J. L., & Daszak, P. (2008). Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature, 451(7181), 990–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vona, L. W. (2017). Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Geissbühler, A., Demongeot, J., Mokhtari, M., Abdulrazak, B., & Aloulou, H. (Eds.). (2015). Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health: 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, June 10-12, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9102). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Susperregi, L., Sierra, B., Martínez-Otzeta, J. M., Lazkano, E., & Ansuategui, A. (2012). A Layered Learning Approach to 3D Multimodal People Detection Using Low-Cost Sensors in a Mobile Robot. In P. Novais, K. Hallenborg, D. I. Tapia, & J. M. C. Rodríguez (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications: 3rd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2012) (pp. 27–33). 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: General.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 13). China and US Make Historic Climate Change Agreement. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-and-us-make-historic-climate-change-agreement/

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. (2007). Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies (GAO-07-434R). 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

Julfayan-Gregorian, V. (2017). Success Strategies of First-Generation Foreign-Born Leaders [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Zajac, M. K. (2012, December 30). Cara Shepley and Genshi Ezawa. New York Times, ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kivelson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kivelson, 2006; Ratcliff & Denison, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ratcliff & Denison, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Gen.
ISSN (print)	0096-3445
ISSN (online)	1939-2222
Scope	Developmental Neuroscience General Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology