How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Fewell, J. H. (2003). Social insect networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1867–1870.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butler, D., & Pockley, P. (2000). Monsanto makes rice genome public. Nature, 404(6778), 534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grant, A. N., Brönnimann, S., & Haimberger, L. (2008). Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested. Nature, 455(7210), E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yang, Y., Huang, F., Chen, C.-F., Xia, M., Cai, Q., Qian, F.-J., & Xiang, J. (2013). Control self-assembly of hydrazide-based cyclic hexamers: in or out. Scientific Reports, 3, 1059.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., & Lannoo, K. (2004). The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Koch, H. (2014). Dispersive Equations and Nonlinear Waves: Generalized Korteweg–de Vries, Nonlinear Schrödinger, Wave and Schrödinger Maps (D. Tataru & M. Vişan, Eds.; Vol. 45). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Halkin, H. (2011). Optimal Control as Programming in Infinite Dimensional Spaces. In R. Conti (Ed.), Calculus of Variations, Classical and Modern (pp. 177–192). 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 Mathematical Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 6). China’s Rising Emissions Offset U.S. Reductions in Ozone Pollution. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-s-rising-emissions-offsets-us-gains-ozone-pollution/

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. (1993). Compensatory Education: Difficulties in Measuring Comparability of Resources Within School Districts (HRD-93-37). 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

Weir, B. (2010). The transfer of momentum from waves to currents due to wave breaking [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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, February 25). Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fewell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler & Pockley, 2000; Fewell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Butler & Pockley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Math. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2496
Scope	Applied Mathematics General Psychology