How to format your references using the Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 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

Kreeger, K. (2003). The learning curve. Nature, 424(6945), 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckling, A., & Rainey, P. B. (2002). The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification. Nature, 420(6915), 496–499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wei, B., Dai, M., & Yin, P. (2012). Complex shapes self-assembled from single-stranded DNA tiles. Nature, 485(7400), 623–626.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Han, Y. L., Hu, J., Genin, G. M., Lu, T. J., & Xu, F. (2014). BioPen: direct writing of functional materials at the point of care. Scientific reports, 4, 4872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. (2013). MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Borsdorf, A. (2015). The Andes: A Geographical Portrait. (C. Stadel, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kool, V. K., & Agrawal, R. (2016). Technology and Motor Behavior: The Cinderella of Modern Psychology. In R. Agrawal (Ed.), Psychology of Technology (pp. 139–186). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 15). The 2015 Sierra Nevada Snowpack Is At A 500-Year Record Low. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/2015-sierra-nevada-snowpack-500-year-record-low/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2012). Public Transit: Funding for New Starts and Small Starts Projects, October 2004 through June 2012 (No. GAO-13-40). Washington, DC: 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

Tang, Y. (2009). Structure tailored properties and functionalities of zero-dimensional nanostructures (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, June 5). World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: Europe Mission Chief Departs. New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckling and Rainey 2002; Kreeger 2003).

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

Two authors: (Buckling and Rainey 2002)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Abbreviation	Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1096-4037
ISSN (online)	1573-2827
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Education