Resources for Psychology Authors

CONTENTS: CITATION GUIDES | DIRECTORIES OF PUBLICATIONS | WRITING HANDBOOKS | DISSERTATION GUIDEBOOKS

The new National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission Policy in effect on April 7, 2008

On April 7, 2008 the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy took effect.
The Law: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
"The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008). The law states:
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, that the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law."
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Citation Guides

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c2001.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 Reading Rms 1 and 4 Regenstein; Regenstein Stacks; Harper Library Reserve; SSA Library Reserve

APA-style helper [computer file] : software for new writers in the behavioral sciences : a companion to the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Edition: 3.0. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2001.
CDRom BF76.7.P83 2001 Mixed Media, Regenstein Circ

APA Style Home
This site, from the American Psychological Association, offers guidance and assistance in citation practices, including those references to electronic resources.

APA Style Resources
This page is a listing of links to resources on the World Wide Web that give examples and guidelines on using APA style. The page is maintained at Psych Web, which is a major web site for "students and teachers of psychology." Psych Web was created by Russell Dewey of Georgia Southern University.

Citation Style Help Guides
This page, from the Regenstein Library Reference and Information Services Department, provides links to a variety of citation tools for all the standard citation formats.

EndNote Help - from the UofC Library
EndNote is one of a number of software programs that helps create and manage bibliographic citations. It includes support for outputing to the major word processing programs and will format to your chosen citation style (Chicago, MLA, APA, Science, etc.). EndNote can be purchased from the Campus Computer Store.

Science Writing and Style Guides
The UofC Chemistry Library has prepared this annotated list of books and websites that provide guidelines and assistance for science authors.

Writing with style : APA style made easy / Lenore T. Szuchman. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2002.
BF76.8 .S98 2002 Regenstein Stacks

Directories of Publications

Author's guide to journals in the behavioral sciences / Alvin Y. Wang. Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1989.
BF76.8.W360 1989 Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein

Guide to journals in psychology and education / by Wing Hong Loke. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1990.
BF76.8.L650 1990 Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein

Guide to publishing in psychology journals / edited by Robert J. Sternberg. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
BF76.8 .G85 2000 Regenstein Stacks

Journals in psychology : a resource listing for authors. 5th ed. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c1997.
BF76.8.J68 1997 Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
This is an international listing of periodicals in all subject areas. Information for each title includes notes about readership, circulation, price, publishing history, and contact information. The electronic version is searchable in a variety of ways. The most recent print editions locate in the reference departments of Regenstein, Crerar, and D'Angelo Law Libraries with the call number Z6941.P44.

Journal Citation Reports
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) compiles and publishes these citation studies based on the data from the references contained in the journals indexed in Web of Science.

Writing Handbooks

Guide to grammar and usage for psychology and related fields / John Eric Bellquist. Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1993.
BF76.8.B440 1993 Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein

Psychological report writing / Norman Tallent. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1993.
BF76.8.T330 1993 SSA Lib, Reserve

Psychological reports : a guide to report writing in professional psychology / Raymond L. Ownby. 3rd ed. New York : J. Wiley, c1997.
BF76.8 .O86 1997 Regenstein Stacks; SSA Library Reserve

Psychologist's companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers / Robert J. Sternberg ; chapter 7 and appendix B were contributed by Chris Leach. 3rd ed.
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
BF76.8.S730 1993 Regenstein Stacks; Harper Library

Psychology student writer's manual / Jill M. Scott ... [et al.]. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1999.
BF76.8 .P736 1999 Regenstein Stacks

Publishing your psychology research : a guide to writing for journals in psychology and related fields. / McInerney, D. M. (Dennis M.), 1948- . London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.
BF76.7 .M35 2001 Regenstein Stacks

Research writing in education and psychology--from planning to publication : a practical handbook / by Herbert J. Klausmeier. Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas, c2001.
LB2369 .K54 2001 Regenstein Stacks

Writing empirical research reports : a basic guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences / Fred Pyrczak, Randall R. Bruce. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, CA : Pyrczak Pub., 2000.
LB2369 .P97 2000 Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein; SSA Library

Writing for psychology / Christopher Thaiss, James F. Sanford. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2000.
BF76.7 .T43 2000 Regenstein Stacks

Writing papers in psychology : a student guide / Ralph L. Rosnow, Mimi Rosnow. 5th ed.
Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001.
BF76.7 .R67 2001 Regenstein Stacks

Dissertation Guidebooks

Note: For more information about dissertation writing and requirements, see the University of Chicago Dissertation Office website.

Dissertations and theses from start to finish : psychology and related fields / John D. Cone and Sharon L. Foster. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1993.
BF76.5.C6450 1993 Regenstein Stacks

Guide to the successful thesis and dissertation : a handbook for students and faculty / James E. Mauch and Jack W. Birch. 4th ed., rev. and expanded. New York : M. Dekker, c1998.
LB2369 .M377 1998 Regenstein Stacks