How to format your references using the Translational Issues in Psychological Science citation style

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

Walters, H. R. J. (2010). Physics. Antimatter atomic physics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6005), 762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feuillet, C., & Eversole, K. (2009). Plant science. Solving the maze. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1071–1072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cao, A., Romanowicz, B., & Takeuchi, N. (2005). An observation of PKJKP: inferences on inner core shear properties. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1453–1455.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tanaka, H., Arakawa, H., Yamaguchi, T., Shiraishi, K., Fukuda, S., Matsui, K., Takei, Y., & Nakamura, Y. (2000). A ribonucleotide reductase gene involved in a p53-dependent cell-cycle checkpoint for DNA damage. Nature, 404(6773), 42–49.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan, P. (2005). GPRS in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Punter, A. (2016). Psychometric Framework for Modeling Parental Involvement and Reading Literacy (C. A. W. Glas & M. R. M. Meelissen, Eds.; Vol. 1). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carvalho, G., Carvalho, A., Rocha, E., Cavalcanti, A., & Sampaio, A. (2014). A Formal Model for Natural-Language Timed Requirements of Reactive Systems. In S. Merz & J. Pang (Eds.), Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 3-5, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 43–58). 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 Translational Issues in Psychological Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 7). Apparently, Burning NH4Cr2O7 With HgSCN Opens A Portal To Hell. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemical-reaction-produces-portal-hell/

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. (1980). Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress (PAD-80-49). 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

Robertson, E. (2014). Transitional services for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, September 8). Toys, Manolos and Tennis Champs. New York Times, AR72.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walters, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Feuillet & Eversole, 2009; Walters, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Feuillet & Eversole, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Translational Issues in Psychological Science
ISSN (print)	2332-2136
ISSN (online)	2332-2179
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