How to format your references using the Psychological Studies citation style

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

Ko, H. (2014). Neuroscience. Functional organization of synaptic connections in the neocortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, L.-Z., & Innan, H. (2004). Very low gene duplication rate in the yeast genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5700), 1367–1370.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mosey, N. J., Müser, M. H., & Woo, T. K. (2005). Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1612–1615.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kwon, Y. T., Kashina, A. S., Davydov, I. V., Hu, R.-G., An, J. Y., Seo, J. W., et al. (2002). An essential role of N-terminal arginylation in cardiovascular development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5578), 96–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz, W. (2016). Species Conservation in Managed Habitats. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bhattacharyya, S., Dutta, P., De, S., & Klepac, G. (Eds.). (2016). Hybrid Soft Computing for Image Segmentation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bone, J. (2013). Becoming Animal. In M. Vicars & T. McKenna (Eds.), Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under (pp. 33–44). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, July 15). “Secret Ginger Gene” May Increase Risk Of Developing Skin Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/secret-ginger-gene-may-increase-risk-of-developing-skin-cancer/. 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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, But Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services (No. T-AIMD-99-267). 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

Manso, P. H. (2017). Teacher Evaluation: A Qualitative Study on Growth-Producing Practices in K-8 Schools (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2014, May 2). Archie Isn’t Dead. He’s Free. (For One Day.). New York Times, p. C34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ko 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gao and Innan 2004; Ko 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gao and Innan 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kwon et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Studies
Abbreviation	Psychol. Stud. (Mysore)
ISSN (print)	0033-2968
ISSN (online)	0974-9861
Scope	General Psychology