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

Palmer, R. (2011). Drugs: Lines of defence. Nature, 480(7376), S9-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon, T. H., & Mezić, I. (2003). Uniform resonant chaotic mixing in fluid flows. Nature, 425(6956), 376–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newhall, C. G., Power, J. A., & Punongbayan, R. S. (2002). Pinatubo eruption. “To make grow.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5558), 1241–1242.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Solovyov, V. F., Ozaki, T., Atrei, A., Wu, L., Al-Mahboob, A., Sadowski, J. T., et al. (2014). Highly efficient solid state catalysis by reconstructed (001) ceria surface. Scientific reports, 4, 4627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bersuker, I. B. (2010). Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jacko, J. A. (Ed.). (2007). Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 4552). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, X., Sun, T., Li, J., & Yun, Y. (2009). A Novel Real-Time MPEG-2 Video Watermarking Scheme in Copyright Protection. In H.-J. Kim, S. Katzenbeisser, & A. T. S. Ho (Eds.), Digital Watermarking: 7th International Workshop, IWDW 2008, Busan, Korea, November 10-12, 2008. Selected Papers (pp. 45–51). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, December 21). China Has Apparently Been Testing The EmDrive In Space. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-has-apparently-been-testing-the-emdrive-in-space/. 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. (1998). Air Traffic Control: Information Concerning Equipment Outages at Two Kansas City Area Facilities (No. RCED-98-256R). 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

Shetter, R. M. (2012). Assaulting the littorals: The development and evolution of a dedicated American amphibious assault force (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, October 3). Confused by Scaramucci’s Plans for a Media Venture? So Is He. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Palmer 2011; Solomon and Mezić 2003).

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

Two authors: (Solomon and Mezić 2003)
Three or more authors: (Solovyov 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