How to format your references using the Psychological Services citation style

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

Mandavilli, A. (2007). Reinventing an industry. Nature, 445(7124), 138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson, P. N., & Palmer, M. R. (2000). Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years. Nature, 406(6797), 695–699.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mourre, V., Villa, P., & Henshilwood, C. S. (2010). Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 659–662.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Leakey, M. G., Spoor, F., Brown, F. H., Gathogo, P. N., Kiarie, C., Leakey, L. N., & McDougall, I. (2001). New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages. Nature, 410(6827), 433–440.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright, D. (2016). Using Commercial Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Herzig, A., & Lorini, E. (Eds.). (2015). The Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes and Social Interaction (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 5). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Masera, M. (2005). Systemic Challenges for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. In J. S. Kowalik, J. Gorski, & A. Sachenko (Eds.), Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues Gdansk, Poland 6–9 September 2004 (pp. 57–73). Springer Netherlands.

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 Services.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 16). Why Are Some Exploding Stars Fleeing Their Galaxies? IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1997). F/A-18E/F Aircraft Production Decision Should Be Postponed (NSIAD-97-106R). 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

Powell, J. E. (2013). Menasha Litigation: Wake-Up Call or Just A False Alarm [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Baker, A. L., & McKINLEY, J. C., Jr. (2017, August 16). F.B.I. Agent Checking On Grenade Hurt in Blast. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mandavilli, 2007; Pearson & Palmer, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pearson & Palmer, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Leakey et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Services
Abbreviation	Psychol. Serv.
ISSN (print)	1541-1559
ISSN (online)	1939-148X
Scope	Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology