How to format your references using the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Lin H. 2014. Information technology. Technology’s limited role in resolving debates over digital surveillance. Science. 345(6198):728–30

A journal article with 2 authors

Clement A, DiNezio P. 2014. Climate change. The tropical Pacific Ocean--back in the driver’s seat? Science. 343(6174):976–78

A journal article with 3 authors

Mempel TR, Henrickson SE, Von Andrian UH. 2004. T-cell priming by dendritic cells in lymph nodes occurs in three distinct phases. Nature. 427(6970):154–59

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fountain SJ, Parkinson K, Young MT, Cao L, Thompson CRL, North RA. 2007. An intracellular P2X receptor required for osmoregulation in Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature. 448(7150):200–203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H. 2016. Design of Steel Structures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Lambers H, Ribas-Carbo M, eds. 2005. Plant Respiration: From Cell to Ecosystem, Vol. 18. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Aldini A, Corradini F, Bernardo M. 2010. Component-Oriented Functional Verification. In A Process Algebraic Approach to Software Architecture Design, eds. M Bernardo, F Corradini, pp. 169–201. London: 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 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Is Female Ejaculation Real? IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1978. Assessment of Testing Vertical Line Array Difar Sonobuoy AN/SS2-77. PSAD-78-120, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Harris KR. 2010. The need for social workers in community clinic settings: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Barron J. 2017. A Global Bible Contest Serves as a Testament to Their Relationship. New York Times, Feb. 13, , p. A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lin 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Clement & DiNezio 2014; Lin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Clement & DiNezio 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fountain et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1548-5943
ISSN (online)	1548-5951
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology