How to format your references using the The Psychological Record citation style

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

Tidwell, L. (2004). Scientists and societies. First, find your postdocs. Nature, 428(6983), 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimura, S., & Yoshioka, K. (2014). Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Scientific reports, 4, 5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, T., Svoboda, K., & Malinow, R. (2003). Experience strengthening transmission by driving AMPA receptors into synapses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1585–1588.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Treydte, K. S., Schleser, G. H., Helle, G., Frank, D. C., Winiger, M., Haug, G. H., & Esper, J. (2006). The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium. Nature, 440(7088), 1179–1182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonald, T., & Feuillet, M. (2011). Network Performance Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, L., & Jin, Y. (Eds.). (2005). Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery: Second International Conference, FSKD 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 3613). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Srivastava, A., & Klassen, E. P. (2016). Shapes of Planar Curves. In E. P. Klassen (Ed.), Functional and Shape Data Analysis (pp. 125–165). New York, NY: 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 The Psychological Record.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 12). Night Sky Puts On A Meteor Shower To Celebrate Rosetta’s Closest Approach To The Sun. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/night-sky-puts-meteor-shower-celebrate-rosetta-s-closest-approach-sun/. 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. (1997). Federal Ships: Policy Changes in the Disposal of Surplus Ships (No. NSIAD-98-17R). 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

Ressler, K. M. (2008). The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Ramirez, A. (2008, March 9). A Fitting Farewell to a Literate and Offbeat Character. New York Times, p. A37.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tidwell 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014; Tidwell 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014)
Three or more authors: (Treydte et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Psychological Record
Abbreviation	Psychol. Rec.
ISSN (print)	0033-2933
ISSN (online)	2163-3452
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology