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

Wilczek F. 2005. An explorer and surveyor. Nature. 437(7062):1095

A journal article with 2 authors

Masataka N, Perlovsky L. 2013. Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music and facilitated by dissonant music. Sci. Rep. 3:2028

A journal article with 3 authors

Choudhary A, Kohar V, Sinha S. 2014. Taming explosive growth through dynamic random links. Sci. Rep. 4:4308

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Albert I, Mavrich TN, Tomsho LP, Qi J, Zanton SJ, et al. 2007. Translational and rotational settings of H2A.Z nucleosomes across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Nature. 446(7135):572–76

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Renaud B, Kim K-H, Cho M. 2016. Dynamics of Housing in East Asia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Zajda J, Davies L, Majhanovich S, eds. 2008. Comparative and Global Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education, Vol. 2. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Pomar V, Domingo P. 2014. Acute Viral Meningitis. In CNS Infections: A Clinical Approach, ed. JC García-Moncó, pp. 45–55. 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

O`Callaghan J. 2017. This New Planet Formation Theory Could Explain The Weird TRAPPIST-1 System. 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. 2015. Public Safety Communications: Preliminary Information on FirstNet’s Efforts to Establish a Nationwide Broadband Network. GAO-15-380T, 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

Ritter D. 2008. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of North Carolina

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

Gustines GG. 2015. Free Digital Comics Site Is Expanding in U.S. With Celebrity Help. New York Times, July 6, , p. B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Masataka & Perlovsky 2013; Wilczek 2005).

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

Two authors: (Masataka & Perlovsky 2013)
Three or more authors: (Albert 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