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

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

Goldston, D. (2007). Making room for dissent. Nature, 448(7153), 524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dekkers, M. P. J., & Barde, Y.-A. (2013). Developmental biology. Programmed cell death in neuronal development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 39–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasen, D., Röpke, F. K., & Woosley, S. E. (2009). The diversity of type Ia supernovae from broken symmetries. Nature, 460(7257), 869–872.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sundar, V. C., Zaumseil, J., Podzorov, V., Menard, E., Willett, R. L., Someya, T., Gershenson, M. E., & Rogers, J. A. (2004). Elastomeric transistor stamps: reversible probing of charge transport in organic crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1644–1646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure. (1993). Particle Size Classifiers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rhim, J. S., & Kremer, R. (Eds.). (2012). Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment (Vol. 720). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pacelli, V. (2016). The Case Study of Goldman Sachs. In S. Dell’Atti & A. Trotta (Eds.), Managing Reputation in The Banking Industry: Theory and Practice (pp. 79–99). Springer International Publishing.

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 School Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 21). Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread Through The Air. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vomiting-machine-shows-how-viruses-spread-through-air/

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. (2013). VA Education Benefits: VA Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide More Timely Information to Students (GAO-13-338). 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

Thomas, E. M. (2016). Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach [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

Kelly, K. K. K., formerly the on-air television critic for WNBC-TV’s ’ ’Live at Five, & ’ ’ teaches English to Amerasian children in Vietnam. (1990, August 19). A Polar Bear’s Picnic. New York Times, 514.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dekkers & Barde, 2013; Goldston, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dekkers & Barde, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sundar et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of School Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Sch. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-4405
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education