How to format your references using the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology citation style

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

Kreeger, K. (2002). Private foundations push for higher postdoc salaries. Nature, 415(6868), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chisholm, J. R., & Kelley, R. (2001). Worms start the reef-building process. Nature, 409(6817), 152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baird, P., Downie, J., & Thompson, J. (2002). Medicine. Clinical trials and industry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2211.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ota, A., Mase, J., Howteerakul, N., Rajatanun, T., Suwannapong, N., Yatsuya, H., & Ono, Y. (2014). The effort-reward imbalance work-stress model and daytime salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) among Japanese women. Scientific Reports, 4, 6402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s Law & the Successful Technocrat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reif, K. (Ed.). (2014). Diesel Engine Management: Systems and Components. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

Järvinen, T., & Niemi, R. (2007). Prodrug approaches to ophthalmic drug delivery. In V. J. Stella, R. T. Borchardt, M. J. Hageman, R. Oliyai, H. Maag, & J. W. Tilley (Eds.), Prodrugs: Challenges and Rewards Part 1 (pp. 125–155). 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 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, November 28). Stem Cells Can Create Skin For Burn Victims. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-can-create-skin-burn-victims/

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. (2001). Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (GAO-01-766R). 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

Lotrecchiano, G. R. (2012). Social Mechanisms of Team Science: A Descriptive Case Study Using a Multilevel Systems Perspective Employing Reciprocating Structuration Theory [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, March 30). A Super Mission: Crashing the Closet. New York Times, AR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chisholm & Kelley, 2001; Kreeger, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chisholm & Kelley, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ota et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Theor. Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1068-8471
ISSN (online)	2151-3341
Scope	Philosophy General Psychology