How to format your references using the Psychological Injury and Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychological Injury and Law. 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

Kappe, C. O. (2010). Journal club. A chemist muses on the technique of microwaving flowing chemical reactions. Nature, 464(7290), 817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedstrom, L., & Frey, P. A. (2000). Robert H. Abeles (1926-2000). Nature, 407(6806), 854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fabiańska, J., Kassier, G., & Feurer, T. (2014). Split ring resonator based THz-driven electron streak camera featuring femtosecond resolution. Scientific reports, 4, 5645.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Aungst, J. L., Heyward, P. M., Puche, A. C., Karnup, S. V., Hayar, A., Szabo, G., & Shipley, M. T. (2003). Centre-surround inhibition among olfactory bulb glomeruli. Nature, 426(6967), 623–629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, J.-J. (2014). Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Kapur, P. K. (2011). Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications. (H. Pham, A. Gupta, & P. C. Jha, Eds.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Venkatesan, V., Mohanta, J. K., Saha, S. K., & Santhakumar, M. (2016). Dynamic Modelling Approaches for a 3-PPR Planar Parallel Manipulator. In B. Vinod, R. Voyles, P. Vadakkepat, M. Sundaram, K. S. Sujatha, & J. J. Brislin (Eds.), Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing: First International Conference, ICAARS 2016, Coimbatore, India, June 23 - 24, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 41–52). Singapore: 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 Psychological Injury and Law.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 18). From Rockets To Space Toilets: Unique Exhibition Celebrates Soviet Cosmonauts. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1991). Geographic Information Systems: Information on Federal Use and Coordination (No. IMTEC-91-72FS). Washington, DC: 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

Choi, K. K. (2010). Conspiracy and alternative crimes in the Military Commissions Act of 2009: Is There a Way Out? (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, May 5). Still Stretching Toward Heaven. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kappe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hedstrom and Frey 2000; Kappe 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hedstrom and Frey 2000)
Three or more authors: (Aungst et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Injury and Law
Abbreviation	Psychol. Inj. Law
ISSN (print)	1938-971X
ISSN (online)	1938-9728
Scope	Ecology Psychiatry and Mental health Law