How to format your references using the Review of General Psychology citation style

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

Mottron, L. (2011). Changing perceptions: The power of autism. Nature, 479(7371), 33–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cohen, J. E., & Gürtler, R. E. (2001). Modeling household transmission of American trypanosomiasis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 694–698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Magnuson, J. J., Safina, C., & Sissenwine, M. P. (2001). Ecology and conservation. Whose fish are they anyway? Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1267–1268.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Xuan, C., Li, H., Zhao, J.-X., Wang, H.-W., Wang, Y., Ning, C.-P., Liu, Z., Zhang, B.-B., He, G.-W., & Lun, L.-M. (2014). Association between MTHFR polymorphisms and congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis based on 9,329 cases and 15,076 controls. Scientific Reports, 4, 7311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon, A., & Itmi, M. (2016). New Autonomous Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Allison, S. T., Kocher, C. T., & Goethals, G. R. (Eds.). (2016). Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership: Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature. Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Drygaś, P., & Król, A. (2016). Various Kinds of Ordinal Sums of Fuzzy Implications. In K. T. Atanassov, O. Castillo, J. Kacprzyk, M. Krawczak, P. Melin, S. Sotirov, E. Sotirova, E. Szmidt, G. De Tré, & S. Zadrożny (Eds.), Novel Developments in Uncertainty Representation and Processing: Advances in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets – Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets (pp. 37–49). Springer International Publishing.

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 Review of General Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, April 4). Catastrophic Erosion Cut Britain Off From Europe Nearly Half A Million Years Ago. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/catastrophic-erosion-cut-britain-off-from-europe-nearly-half-a-million-years-ago/

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. (2007). Department of Energy: Oil and Natural Gas Research and Development Activities (GAO-08-190R). 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

Baghaei Lakeh, A. (2013). Approximate Analytical Solutions of a Generalized van der Pol Oscillator [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Burch, A. D. S. (2017, July 8). Facing a Void Left by Hate. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mottron, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen & Gürtler, 2001; Mottron, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cohen & Gürtler, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Xuan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of General Psychology
Abbreviation	Rev. Gen. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1089-2680
ISSN (online)	1939-1552
Scope	General Psychology