How to format your references using the Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Practice in Pediatric 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	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

Wilmut, I. (2012). Retrospective. Keith Campbell (1954-2012). Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6114), 1553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collier, P., & Alles, C. M. (2010). Materials science. Materials ecology: an industrial perspective. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6006), 919–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dietl, G. P., Herbert, G. S., & Vermeij, G. J. (2004). Reduced competition and altered feeding behavior among marine snails after a mass extinction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5705), 2229–2231.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Greer, J. M., Puetz, J., Thomas, K. R., & Capecchi, M. R. (2000). Maintenance of functional equivalence during paralogous Hox gene evolution. Nature, 403(6770), 661–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hood, D., & Trojer, E. (2012). Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meester, F. D., & Watson, R. R. (Eds.). (2008). Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Ito, U., Hakamata, Y., Watabe, K., & Oyanagi, K. (2013). Astrocytic Involvement in the Maturation Phenomenon After Temporary Cerebral Ischemia. In Y. Katayama, T. Maeda, & T. Kuroiwa (Eds.), Brain Edema XV (pp. 23–29). 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 Practice in Pediatric Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 31). Fanged Deer Spotted In Afghanistan. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fanged-deer-back-afghanistan/

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. (1992). Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System (IMTEC-92-61BR). 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

Garatli, A. A. (2014). What are the necessary skills for leading an online business in Saudi Arabia? [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, October 4). The Inspiration for Betty of ‘Archie’ Comics. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilmut, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Collier & Alles, 2010; Wilmut, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Collier & Alles, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Greer et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology
Abbreviation	Clin. Pract. Pediatr. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2169-4826
ISSN (online)	2169-4834
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