How to format your references using the School Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for School 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

Naccache, L. (2006). Psychology. Is she conscious? Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1395–1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, X., & Perc, M. (2014). Excessive abundance of common resources deters social responsibility. Scientific Reports, 4, 4161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, L., Li, X.-Q., & Sun, Q.-F. (2014). Revisit the spin-FET: multiple reflection, inelastic scattering, and lateral size effects. Scientific Reports, 4, 7527.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gao, Y., Trivedi, S., Ferris, R. L., & Koide, K. (2014). Regulation of HPV16 E6 and MCL1 by SF3B1 inhibitor in head and neck cancer cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alhabeeb, M. J. (2012). Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tejchman, J. (2013). Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Fracture in Concrete Using FEM (J. Bobiński, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Peter, H. (2014). Magnetic Field Diagnostics and Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Solar Transition Region. In S. Tomczyk, J. Zhang, & T. Bastian (Eds.), Coronal Magnetometry (pp. 69–85). 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 School Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 8). New Device Performs Eye Exams With Smartphone. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/device-performs-eye-exams-smartphone/

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). Homeland Security: DHS Enterprise Architecture Continues to Evolve but Improvements Needed (GAO-07-564). 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

Aiken, J. (2009). Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2011, September 17). Alabama County’s Debt Deal Averts Bankruptcy. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Naccache, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Perc, 2014; Naccache, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Perc, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	School Psychology
ISSN (print)	2578-4218
ISSN (online)	2578-4226
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