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BPS Style: key aspects
BPS Style is a citation style developed by the British Psychological Society. To date, the October 2023 edition is the manual’s latest edition. While BPS Style relies heavily on the citation style developed by the American Psychological Association (APA Style), it has a considerable number of differences to be taken into account.
The British Psychological Society reference generator by Grafiati
The BPS citation generator developed by Grafiati allows you avoiding unnecessary errors and generating references automatically in line with the official requirements of the British Psychological Society. Use the widget on this page to start creating your bibliographic references in BPS Style.
Examples of references in BPS Style
Book
American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5 (5th edn). Washington, DC: Author.
Book chapter
Le Pelley, M.E., Griffiths, O. & Beesley, T. (2017). Associative accounts of casual cognition. In M.R. Waldmann (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of casual reasoning (pp.13–28). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Journal article
Kirkham, S. (2015). Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice. Language in Society, 44(5), 629–652. doi:10.1017/s0047404515000585