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

Dando, P. R. (2008). Obituary: Alan J. Southward (1928-2007). Nature, 451(7174), 28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaztelumendi, N., & Nogués, C. (2014). Chromosome instability in mouse embryonic stem cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 5324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Diemand, J., Moore, B., & Stadel, J. (2005). Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe. Nature, 433(7024), 389–391.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wing, S. L., Harrington, G. J., Smith, F. A., Bloch, J. I., Boyer, D. M., & Freeman, K. H. (2005). Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5750), 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, B., Ewing, J. J., & Hecht, J. (2005). Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bou-Sleiman, S. (2012). Built-in-Self-Test and Digital Self-Calibration for RF SoCs (M. Ismail, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, L., Bahaa, F., & Wilkins, M. (2007). Tetrahydrobiopterin And Pulmonary Hypertension. In A. Aldashev & R. Naeije (Eds.), Problems of High Altitude Medicine and Biology (pp. 69–86). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, December 8). New Device Performs Eye Exams With Smartphone. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/device-performs-eye-exams-smartphone/

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. (1976). Examination of Disbursing Officer’s Account, U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia (089079). 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

Thompson, T. (2010). Assessing the determinants of information technology adoption in Jamaica’s public sector using the technology acceptance model [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

MARY WILLIAMS WALSH; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. (2011, November 30). U.S. to Take Over Orchestra’s Pensions. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dando, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dando, 2008; Gaztelumendi & Nogués, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gaztelumendi & Nogués, 2014)
Three authors: (Diemand et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Wing et al., 2005)

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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