How to format your references using the Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Jaeglé, L. (2007). Atmospheric science. Pumping up surface air. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 772–773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vyleta, N. P., & Jonas, P. (2014). Loose coupling between Ca2+ channels and release sensors at a plastic hippocampal synapse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6171), 665–670.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ross, R. J., Weiner, M. M., & Lin, H. (2014). PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma. Nature, 505(7483), 353–359.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bezerra-Neto, M. M., Ribeiro, M. S., Sanyal, B., Bergman, A., Muniz, R. B., Eriksson, O., & Klautau, A. B. (2013). Complex magnetic structure of clusters and chains of Ni and Fe on Pt(111). Scientific Reports, 3, 3054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paolella, M. S. (2006). Fundamental Probability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Novick, A. C., Stephen Jones, J., Gill, I. S., Klein, E. A., Rackley, R., & Ross, J. H. (Eds.). (2006). Operative Urology at the Cleveland Clinic. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Ambrose, D. (2009). Morality and High Ability: Navigating a Landscape of Altruism and Malevolence. In T. Cross & D. Ambrose (Eds.), Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds (pp. 49–71). Springer US.

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 Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 3). We Must Defend Science If We Want A Prosperous Future. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/we-must-defend-science-if-we-want-prosperous-future/

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. (1987). Attack Warning: ADP and Communication Modernization Programs for Warning and Assessment (IMTEC-87-23FS). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crane, C. C. (2017). A Qualitative Study on the Preferred Working Environment of Southern California Secondary Teachers with Experience in Both a District Traditional School and a District Charter School [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Walsh, M. W., & Robertson, C. (2011, July 29). Just Before Deadline, County in Alabama Delays Bankruptcy Move. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaeglé, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Jaeglé, 2007; Vyleta & Jonas, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vyleta & Jonas, 2014)
Three authors: (Ross et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Bezerra-Neto et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
Abbreviation	Body Mov. Dance Psychother.
ISSN (print)	1743-2979
ISSN (online)	1743-2987
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology