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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Personnel 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	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

Horton, B. (2000). Bioengineering programmes rise to meet the challenge of a young science. Nature, 403(6768), 463–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barker, S., & Elderfield, H. (2002). Foraminiferal calcification response to glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 833–836.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vivier, E., Nunès, J. A., & Vély, F. (2004). Natural killer cell signaling pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1517–1519.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Xia, G., Tan, Y., Li, D., Guo, Z., Liu, H., Liu, Z., & Yu, X. (2014). Hierarchical porous Li₂Mg(NH)₂@C nanowires with long cycle life towards stable hydrogen storage. Scientific Reports, 4, 6599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pickles, J., Smith, A., Begg, R., Buček, M., Roukova, P., & Pástor, R. (2015). Articulations of Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Draheim, D., & Weber, G. (Eds.). (2007). Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture: 2nd International Conference, TEAA 2006, Berlin, Germany, November 29 - December 1, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 4473). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bucur, O., Beaune, P., & Boissier, O. (2006). Steps Towards Making Contextualized Decisions: How to Do What You Can, with What You Have, Where You Are. In T. R. Roth-Berghofer, S. Schulz, & D. B. Leake (Eds.), Modeling and Retrieval of Context: Second International Workshop, MRC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 31–August 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 62–85). 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 Personnel Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 12). Newly-Released Maps of Saturn’s Moons Are The Clearest Ever Created. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/newly-released-maps-saturn-s-moons-are-clearest-ever-created/

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). Information Technology: Library of Congress Needs to Implement Recommendations to Address Management Weaknesses (GAO-16-197T). 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

Volkmer, J. E. (2010). The Cretaceous-Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Lhasa Terrane, Tibet [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

Widdicombe, B. (2017, August 4). Glamour? There’s an App for That. New York Times, ST4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Horton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Barker & Elderfield, 2002; Horton, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Barker & Elderfield, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Xia et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Personnel Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Pers. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1866-5888
ISSN (online)	2190-5150
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology