How to format your references using the New Ideas in Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Ideas in 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

Koen, D. (2004). Nuts & bolts. Nature, 431(7005), 228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasare, C., & Medzhitov, R. (2005). Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors. Nature, 438(7066), 364–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke, R. C., Merzenich, M. M., & Schreiner, C. E. (2007). A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity. Nature, 450(7168), 425–429.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., Visalberghi, E., & Ferrari, P. F. (2009). Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5942), 880–883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadr, A. (2009). Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lynch, N. A., & Shvartsman, A. A. (Eds.). (2010). Distributed Computing: 24th International Symposium, DISC 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 13-15, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6343). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Plastino, A., & Plastino, A. R. (2007). Information and Thermal Physics. In B. R. Frieden & R. A. Gatenby (Eds.), Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information (pp. 119–154). 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 New Ideas in Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). May 13 Google Doodle Commemorates Seismologist Inge Lehmann. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/may-13-google-doodle-commemorates-life-and-discoveries-inge-lehmann/

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. (1989). Student Athletes: Information on Their Academic Performance (HRD-89-107FS). 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

Castro Deller, E. (2013). Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers [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

Vecsey, G. (2009, December 2). World Cup Draw Portends More Peril Than Promise. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2004; Pasare & Medzhitov, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pasare & Medzhitov, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Paukner et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Ideas in Psychology
Abbreviation	New Ideas Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0732-118X
Scope	General Psychology Psychology (miscellaneous)