How to format your references using the British Journal of Clinical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal 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	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

Tammann, G. A. (2010). Allan Sandage (1926-2010). Nature, 468(7326), 898.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishide, H., & Oyaizu, K. (2008). Materials science. Toward flexible batteries. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5864), 737–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rasmussen, L. E. L., Riddle, H. S., & Krishnamurthy, V. (2002). Mellifluous matures to malodorous in musth. Nature, 415(6875), 975–976.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Drissner, D., Kunze, G., Callewaert, N., Gehrig, P., Tamasloukht, M., Boller, T., Felix, G., Amrhein, N., & Bucher, M. (2007). Lyso-phosphatidylcholine is a signal in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5848), 265–268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best, P. (2005). Implementing Value at Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Friman, B., Höhne, C., Knoll, J., Leupold, S., Randrup, J., Rapp, R., & Senger, P. (Eds.). (2011). The CBM Physics Book: Compressed Baryonic Matter in Laboratory Experiments (Vol. 814). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lacruz, C. R., Sáenz de Santamaría, J., & Bardales, R. H. (2014). Normal Brain and Gliosis. In J. Saénz de Santamaría & R. H. Bardales (Eds.), Central Nervous System Intraoperative Cytopathology (pp. 45–56). 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 British Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 23). 2.7 billion-year old fossilised raindrops. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2016). West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts (GAO-17-23). 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

Vaughan, L. (2008). Executive function in daily life: Age-related influences of executive processes on instrumental activities of daily living [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Pilon, M. (2013, August 27). Long Security Lines Surprise Fans. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tammann, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Nishide & Oyaizu, 2008; Tammann, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nishide & Oyaizu, 2008)
Three authors: (Rasmussen et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Drissner et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Clin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0144-6657
ISSN (online)	2044-8260
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Psychology