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

Hildebrandt, P. (2014). Biochemistry. More than fine tuning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6216), 1456–1457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Song, T.-R. A., & Simons, M. (2003). Large trench-parallel gravity variations predict seismogenic behavior in subduction zones. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5633), 630–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Longrich, N. R., Bhullar, B.-A. S., & Gauthier, J. A. (2012). A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. Nature, 488(7410), 205–208.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, D., Jiang, C., Hu, X., Liu, H., Li, Q., Li, T., et al. (2014). Methylation patterns of the IFN-γ gene in cervical cancer tissues. Scientific reports, 4, 6331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi, L. (2005). Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chen, Q., Hameurlain, A., Toumani, F., Wagner, R., & Decker, H. (Eds.). (2015). Database and Expert Systems Applications: 26th International Conference, DEXA 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9262). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brombin, C., Salmaso, L., Fontanella, L., Ippoliti, L., & Fusilli, C. (2016). Parametric and Non-parametric Testing of Mean Shapes. In L. Salmaso, L. Fontanella, L. Ippoliti, & C. Fusilli (Eds.), Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for Statistical Dynamic Shape Analysis with Applications (pp. 59–72). 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

Fang, J. (2014, June 10). Scientists Create Light-Sensitive Retina in a Dish. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-create-light-sensitive-retina-dish/. 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. (1988). [Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act] (No. B-204078.2). 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

Simon, P. R. (2013). Gender grouping and its initial effect on a Title I upper elementary school during the pilot year of implementation (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Barron, J. (2017, January 15). The Paintings of an ‘Outsider’ Are (Finally) Revealed. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hildebrandt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hildebrandt 2014; Song and Simons 2003).

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

Two authors: (Song and Simons 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ma 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