How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance citation style

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

Campbell, C. T. (2004). Physics. The active site in nanoparticle gold catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5694), 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Townley, R., & Shapiro, L. (2007). Crystal structures of the adenylate sensor from fission yeast AMP-activated protein kinase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1726–1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, B. L., Casey, W. H., & Karlsson, M. (2000). Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature, 404(6776), 379–382.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Vergani, P., Lockless, S. W., Nairn, A. C., & Gadsby, D. C. (2005). CFTR channel opening by ATP-driven tight dimerization of its nucleotide-binding domains. Nature, 433(7028), 876–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ness, L. (2006). Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Torres, D. F., & Reimer, O. (Eds.). (2013). Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Environments: Proceedings of the Second Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics (Vol. 34). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Combemale, B., Gonnord, L., & Rusu, V. (2011). A Generic Tool for Tracing Executions Back to a DSML’s Operational Semantics. In R. B. France, J. M. Kuester, B. Bordbar, & R. F. Paige (Eds.), Modelling Foundations and Applications: 7th European Conference, ECMFA 2011, Birmingham, UK, June 6 - 9, 2011 Proceedings (pp. 35–51). 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: Human Perception and Performance.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, November 5). Man Told He Has “30 Minutes To Live” After Doctors Discover Tapeworm In His Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-told-he-has-30-minutes-live-after-doctors-discover-tapeworm-his-brain/

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. (2015). Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in NOAA’s Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage Gaps (GAO-15-386T). 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

Bottorff, E. A. (2011). The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida [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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 21). Mets Fall Again, and Bruce Is Pulled During Rally. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell, 2004; Townley & Shapiro, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Townley & Shapiro, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Vergani et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform.
ISSN (print)	0096-1523
ISSN (online)	1939-1277
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology