How to format your references using the Professional Psychology: Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. 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

Pardoll, D. M. (2001). Immunology. Stress, NK receptors, and immune surveillance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 534–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baumiller, T. K., & Gahn, F. J. (2004). Testing predator-driven evolution with Paleozoic crinoid arm regeneration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5689), 1453–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibring, J.-P., Squyres, S. W., & Arvidson, R. E. (2006). Planetary science. Merging views on Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1899–1901.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lin, K., Xing, J., Quan, L. N., de Arquer, F. P. G., Gong, X., Lu, J., Xie, L., Zhao, W., Zhang, D., Yan, C., Li, W., Liu, X., Lu, Y., Kirman, J., Sargent, E. H., Xiong, Q., & Wei, Z. (2018). Perovskite light-emitting diodes with external quantum efficiency exceeding 20 per cent. Nature, 562(7726), 245–248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver, H., Cawson, P., Gorin, S., & Walker, S. (2009). Safeguarding Children. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Steel, G. (Ed.). (2016). Power in Contemporary Japan. Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

de Blasio, G., Moreno-Díaz, R., & Moreno-Díaz, R. (2009). Analytical Representation of Intrinsic Directionality in Retinal Cells. In R. Moreno-Díaz, F. Pichler, & A. Quesada-Arencibia (Eds.), Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009: 12th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 15-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 33–40). 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 Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 29). Scientists Predict Everest Could Be Ice-Free By The End Of This Century. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-predict-everest-could-lose-nearly-all-its-ice-within-century/

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. (2005). Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts (GAO-05-266). 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

Mersch, C. (2012). Campus-based drunk-driving intervention program: A grant proposal project [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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, June 29). Friendly Neighborhood Web-Slinger Exhibition. New York Times, C16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pardoll, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Baumiller & Gahn, 2004; Pardoll, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Baumiller & Gahn, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Prof. Psychol. Res. Pr.
ISSN (print)	0735-7028
ISSN (online)	1939-1323
Scope	General Psychology