How to format your references using the Journal of Psychophysiology citation style

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

Körding, K. (2007). Decision theory: what “should” the nervous system do? Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 606–610.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aychek, T., & Jung, S. (2014). Immunology. The axis of tolerance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1439–1440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer zu Heringdorf, F. J., Reuter, M. C., & Tromp, R. M. (2001). Growth dynamics of pentacene thin films. Nature, 412(6846), 517–520.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hustoft, H. K., Brandtzaeg, O. K., Rogeberg, M., Misaghian, D., Torsetnes, S. B., Greibrokk, T., Reubsaet, L., Wilson, S. R., & Lundanes, E. (2013). Integrated enzyme reactor and high resolving chromatography in “sub-chip” dimensions for sensitive protein mass spectrometry. Scientific Reports, 3, 3511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham, B. M. (2011). Proteomics of Biological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, Y., Yao, G., He, J., Wang, L., Smalheiser, N. R., & Yin, X. (Eds.). (2014). Health Information Science: Third International Conference, HIS 2014, Shenzhen, China, April 22-23, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8423). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherm, H., Ngugi, H. K., & Ojiambo, P. S. (2006). Trends in theoretical plant epidemiology. In B. M. Cooke (Ed.), Plant disease epidemiology: facing challenges of the 21st Century: Under the aegis of an International Plant Disease Epidemiology Workshop held at Landernau, France, 10–15th April, 2005 (pp. 61–73). Springer Netherlands.

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 Psychophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 6). Tree Kangaroos: Real Life Teddy Bears. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tree-kangaroos/

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). Airport Improvement Program: Allocation of Funds From 1982 to 1992 (RCED-94-14FS). 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

Palmer, C. M. (2010). Intramural scheduling time preferences to increase student participation [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2011, August 21). A Festival in Red Square For the End of Summer. New York Times, TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Körding, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Aychek & Jung, 2014; Körding, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Aychek & Jung, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hustoft et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Psychophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0269-8803
ISSN (online)	2151-2124
Scope	Physiology General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology