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

Schoggins, J. W. (2015). IMMUNOLOGY. Viruses carry antiviral cargo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6253), 1166–1167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marsh, M., & van Meer, G. (2008). Cell biology. No ESCRTs for exosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5867), 1191–1192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, J., Zhang, C., & Qiao, H. (2014). The significance of p40 expression in sclerosing hemangioma of lung. Scientific Reports, 4, 6102.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kondo, T., Wakayama, T., Naiki, T., Matsumoto, K., & Sugimoto, K. (2001). Recruitment of Mec1 and Ddc1 checkpoint proteins to double-strand breaks through distinct mechanisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 867–870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sinclair, E. (2013). Volatility Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bouguettaya, A., Sheng, Q. Z., & Daniel, F. (Eds.). (2014). Web Services Foundations. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhary, M., & Kumar, A. (2015). Events in jQuery. In A. Kumar (Ed.), Practical jQuery (pp. 99–127). Apress.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, May 16). Brown Snake Venom Gets More Deadly With Age. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brown-snake-venom-gets-more-deadly-with-age/

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. (1990). Forest Service Not Ready to Acquire a Nationwide Geographic Information System (T-IMTEC-90-10). 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

Albers, C. (2015). One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, November 21). A Hive of Growth, Dallas Flirts With Bankruptcy. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schoggins, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marsh & van Meer, 2008; Schoggins, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marsh & van Meer, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kondo et al., 2001)

About the journal

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