Upgrade StorageStyle Request [renewed]: British Psychological Society (2023)
Style guide: https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/BPS Style Guide.pdf (p31-p50)
This appears to be a very small adaptation to APA 7th Ed. (no ampersand) with changes to comma handling and formatting of multiple authors.
I believe that this request was last made in 2008.
This appears to be a very small adaptation to APA 7th Ed. (no ampersand) with changes to comma handling and formatting of multiple authors.
I believe that this request was last made in 2008.
(the following excerpts taken from the style guide)
The sequence is strictly alphabetical, even if a chronological sequence seems more
logical:
In the last 25 years the department has carried out three major surveys (Brown,
2012; Jones & Smith, 2000; Smith, 1989).
If the abbreviation et al. leads to a confusion between two groups of authors, cite as
many of the authors as necessary to distinguish the two citations:
Dixon, Black et al. (2010) and Dixon, Davies et al. (2010)
When there are five or more authors, the corresponding entry in the reference list
need only give the surnames and initials of the first three authors followed by et al.
e. Punctuation in text citations
A modified APA style has been adopted. One modification is to ignore the APA
preference for the series comma (i.e. the comma before and, &, et al.) in a series of
names). Thus:
Smith, Brown and Jones (2012) reported…
It has been reported (e.g. Smith, Brown & Jones, 2012)…
Smith, Brown et al. (2011) found…
APA style would require a comma after Brown in each of these citations.
In order to work on this/expedite this, we're asking for what the concrete differences to APA are so we can adapt APA to fit the style guidelines.
I've started making one, but there will likely be things I've missed:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/dcb2fef0cb0152595342c036f9ac9091ec7dd7c2/british-psychological-society.csl
(nota bene, we do have a dependent style for the British Journal of Psychology, a journal by the BPS, that is set to APA. Probably needs to be looked at)