How to format your references using the Psychological Review citation style

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

Jimenez-Sanchez, G. (2003). Developing a platform for genomic medicine in Mexico. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5617), 295–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Binder, G. K., & Griffin, D. E. (2001). Interferon-gamma-mediated site-specific clearance of alphavirus from CNS neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 303–306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duan, L. M., Cirac, J. I., & Zoller, P. (2001). Geometric manipulation of trapped ions for quantum computation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1695–1697.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pillitteri, L. J., Sloan, D. B., Bogenschutz, N. L., & Torii, K. U. (2007). Termination of asymmetric cell division and differentiation of stomata. Nature, 445(7127), 501–505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel® 2010 Tips & Tricks. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Sneve, M. K., & Kiselev, M. F. (Eds.). (2008). Challenges in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Regulation of the Nuclear Legacy. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Karer, G., & Škrjanc, I. (2013). Unsupervised Learning Methods for Identification of Complex Systems. In I. Škrjanc (Ed.), Predictive Approaches to Control of Complex Systems (pp. 49–98). 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 Review.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2015, November 13). Practically Unknown STI Could Have Infected Huge Numbers Of People Without Them Knowing Anything About It. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-you-unknowingly-infected-gross-sti/

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. (1994). FAA Budget: Agency Faces Key Management Challenges on Major Issues (T-RCED-94-191). 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

Gonzalez, H. M. (2017). DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan [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

Greenhouse, L. (2010, May 1). The Court As Mr. Fix-It? New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Binder & Griffin, 2001; Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Binder & Griffin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Pillitteri et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Review
Abbreviation	Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0033-295X
ISSN (online)	1939-1471
Scope	General Psychology