How to format your references using the The Irish Journal of Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Irish Journal of 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	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

Lazic, S. E. (2013). Comment on “Stress in puberty unmasks latent neuropathological consequences of prenatal immune activation in mice.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6134), 811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilger, C., & Bartenbach, K. (2002). Patent law. New rules for German professors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5596), 1173–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, M., Kong, L., & Qu, H. (2014). A systems biology approach to identify intelligence quotient score-related genomic regions, and pathways relevant to potential therapeutic treatments. Scientific Reports, 4, 4176.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Flick, K., Scholander, C., Chen, Q., Fernandez, V., Pouvelle, B., Gysin, J., & Wahlgren, M. (2001). Role of nonimmune IgG bound to PfEMP1 in placental malaria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 2098–2100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bock, R. (2005). Handbuch der analytisch-chemischen Aufschlussmethoden. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Williams, S. K. R., & Caldwell, K. D. (Eds.). (2012). Field-Flow Fractionation in Biopolymer Analysis. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bazzo, J. J., & Cardieri, P. (2016). Evaluation of the LTE 450 MHz System Performance with Different Terminal Antennas. In A. Paradisi, M. D. Yacoub, F. Lira Figueiredo, & T. Tronco (Eds.), Long Term Evolution: 4G and Beyond (pp. 61–77). 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 The Irish Journal of Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 7). Semi-Synthetic Organism Uses New DNA Bases. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/semi-synthetic-organism-uses-new-dna-bases/

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). Airfield Pavements (RCED-97-50R). 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

Gilkes, D. M. (2008). Multiple modes of Mdmx regulation affect p53 activation [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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. (2015, September 2). Familiar Face on ‘Sesame Street’ Tells of Her Own Childhood. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazic, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kilger & Bartenbach, 2002; Lazic, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kilger & Bartenbach, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Flick et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Irish Journal of Psychology
Abbreviation	Ir. J. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0303-3910
ISSN (online)	2158-0812
Scope	General Psychology