How to format your references using the Pratiques psychologiques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pratiques psychologiques. 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

Krimsky, S. (2011). Beware of gifts that come at too great a cost. Nature, 474(7350), 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, B., & Bony, S. (2013). Climate change. What are climate models missing? Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1053–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nygård, J., Cobden, D. H., & Lindelof, P. E. (2000). Kondo physics in carbon nanotubes. Nature, 408(6810), 342–346.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dore, J. E., Lukas, R., Sadler, D. W., & Karl, D. M. (2003). Climate-driven changes to the atmospheric CO2 sink in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean. Nature, 424(6950), 754–757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denny, H. R., & Butterworth, S. J. (2008). A Guide to Canine and Feline Orthopaedic Surgery. Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Koplin, R. S. (2013). The Scrub’s Bible: How to Assist at Cataract and Corneal Surgery with a Primer on the Anatomy of the Human Eye and Self Assessment (E. I. Wu, D. C. Ritterband, & J. A. Seedor, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chalmers, N. (2007). Sites of Arterial Access and the Role of Closure Devices in Percutaneous Arterial Intervention. In M. G. Cowling (Ed.), Vascular Interventional Radiology: Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy (pp. 21–28). 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 Pratiques psychologiques.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). Why Single Blood Markers For Disease Will Become A Thing Of The Past. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-single-blood-markers-disease-will-become-thing-past/

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. (1985). Survey of Small Businesses’ Reactions to Changes in the Costs of Telephone Service (RCED-85-106). 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

Randall, R. (2009). Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children [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

Powell, M. (2017, July 7). Defining Success. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krimsky, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Krimsky, 2011; Stevens & Bony, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stevens & Bony, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dore et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pratiques psychologiques
ISSN (print)	1269-1763
Scope	General Psychology