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

Pettitt, C. (2015). Anthropology: One-man multidisciplinarian. Nature, 525(7569), 319–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, J., & MacMillan, D. W. C. (2015). Alcohols as alkylating agents in heteroarene C-H functionalization. Nature, 525(7567), 87–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bix, M., Kim, S., & Rao, A. (2005). Immunology. Opposites attract in differentiating T cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5728), 1563–1565.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Irwin, D. E., Bensch, S., Irwin, J. H., & Price, T. D. (2005). Speciation by distance in a ring species. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5708), 414–416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pike, A. (2015). Origination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schiefer, U., Wilhelm, H., & Hart, W. (Eds.). (2007). Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology: A Practical Guide. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ryan, T. M., & Sukhdeo, S. (2016). KSD-VP-1/1: Analysis of the Postcranial Skeleton Using High-Resolution Computed Tomography. In Y. Haile-Selassie & D. F. Su (Eds.), The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis: New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1 (pp. 39–62). Springer Netherlands.

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

Davis, J. (2017, February 21). Are Health And Fitness Apps Actually Good For You? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-health-and-fitness-apps-actually-good-for-you/

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. (2002). Transportation Infrastructure: Cost and Oversight Issues on Major Highway and Bridge Projects (GAO-02-702T). 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

Bravo, D. (2013). Parents’ perspectives of undocumented students’ transition from high school [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Wells, L. (2005, October 16). My Life in Pictures. New York Times, 656.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pettitt, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jin & MacMillan, 2015; Pettitt, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jin & MacMillan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Irwin et al., 2005)

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