How to format your references using the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics. 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

Brash, D. E. (2015). Cancer. Preprocancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6237), 867–868.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rathmell, J. C., & Newgard, C. B. (2009). Biochemistry. A glucose-to-gene link. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5930), 1021–1022.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., & Gächter, S. (2008). Antisocial punishment across societies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1362–1367.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kawane, K., Fukuyama, H., Kondoh, G., Takeda, J., Ohsawa, Y., Uchiyama, Y., & Nagata, S. (2001). Requirement of DNase II for definitive erythropoiesis in the mouse fetal liver. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5521), 1546–1549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy, D. J. (2006). Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Cazzulino, D. (2005). Beginning Visual Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional (V. G. Aprea, J. Greenwood, & C. Hart, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Sabella, D., Caretti, M., Tomaselli, W., Palestini, V., Cendón, B., Valino, J., Medela, A., Fernández, Y., & Sanchez, L. (2012). Evaluation of ON-OFF Schemes and Linear Prediction Methods for Increasing Energy Efficiency in Mobile Broadband Networks. In Z. Becvar, R. Bestak, & L. Kencl (Eds.), NETWORKING 2012 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, ETICS, HetsNets, and CompNets, Held at NETWORKING 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 27–34). 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 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 14). Understanding The Environmental Impact of Solar Parks. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1983). NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California (AFMD-83-40). 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

Berkowitz, E. S. (2013). Some novel phenomena at high density [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016, November 10). Juilliard’s Fast Takes on French Baroque. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brash, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brash, 2015; Rathmell & Newgard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rathmell & Newgard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kawane et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Psychol. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1937-321X
ISSN (online)	2151-318X
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Applied Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology