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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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	Download the output style file
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

Gasse, F. (2002). Paleoclimate. Kilimanjaro’s secrets revealed. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 548–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao, Z., & Vollrath, F. (2002). Surprising strength of silkworm silk. Nature, 418(6899), 741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xuereb, A., Ulbricht, H., & Paternostro, M. (2013). Optomechanical interface for probing matter-wave coherence. Scientific Reports, 3, 3378.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Barnes, T. D., Kubota, Y., Hu, D., Jin, D. Z., & Graybiel, A. M. (2005). Activity of striatal neurons reflects dynamic encoding and recoding of procedural memories. Nature, 437(7062), 1158–1161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick, J. B. (2012). Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seidl, H. (Ed.). (2012). Programming Languages and Systems: 21st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 - April 1, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7211). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yui, N. (2013). Modularity of Calabi–Yau Varieties: 2011 and Beyond. In R. Laza, M. Schütt, & N. Yui (Eds.), Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi–Yau Threefolds (pp. 101–139). 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 Psychology Review.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, April 27). Evidence Suggests Mars Once Had Much More Oxygen Than It Does Now. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/fresh-evidence-mars-once-had-rich-oxygen-atmosphere/

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). Lost in Space? (146027). 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

Mikhailik, Y. (2013). Longing Limned [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard, M. (2010, October 28). For the Boots of Fall, Fur Rules. New York Times, E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gasse, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gasse, 2002; Shao & Vollrath, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Shao & Vollrath, 2002)
Three authors: (Xuereb et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Barnes et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Psychology Review
Abbreviation	Clin. Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0272-7358
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology