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

Weimerskirch, H. (2013). Ecology. Seabirds--individuals in colonies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6141), 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Du, J.-L., & Poo, M.-M. (2004). Rapid BDNF-induced retrograde synaptic modification in a developing retinotectal system. Nature, 429(6994), 878–883.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogina, B., Helfand, S. L., & Frankel, S. (2002). Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1745.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Carol, R. J., Takeda, S., Linstead, P., Durrant, M. C., Kakesova, H., Derbyshire, P., Drea, S., Zarsky, V., & Dolan, L. (2005). A RhoGDP dissociation inhibitor spatially regulates growth in root hair cells. Nature, 438(7070), 1013–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bender, H. F. (2002). Das Gefahrstoffbuch. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Dix, J., & Witteveen, C. (Eds.). (2010). Multiagent System Technologies: 8th German Conference, MATES 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6251). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oostveen, A.-M., Hjorth, I., Pickering, B., Boniface, M., Meyer, E. T., Cobo, C., & Schroeder, R. (2012). Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for the Future Internet. In F. Álvarez, F. Cleary, P. Daras, J. Domingue, A. Galis, A. Garcia, A. Gavras, S. Karnourskos, S. Krco, M.-S. Li, V. Lotz, H. Müller, E. Salvadori, A.-M. Sassen, H. Schaffers, B. Stiller, G. Tselentis, P. Turkama, & T. Zahariadis (Eds.), The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality (pp. 42–54). 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

Davis, J. (2016, July 14). Stand-up Comedians Are More Likely To Die Prematurely, With The Funniest Most Likely To Go First. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/standup-comedians-are-more-likely-to-die-prematurely-with-the-funniest-most-likely-to-go-first/

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. (2001). Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges (GAO-02-41). 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

Odom, S. A. (2017). Electronic health records: Overcoming obstacles to improve acceptance and utilization for mental health clinicians [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Feuer, A., & Rashbaum, W. K. (2017, April 13). Family Past Heightens Enigma of Judge’s Death. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weimerskirch, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Du & Poo, 2004; Weimerskirch, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Du & Poo, 2004)
Three authors: (Rogina et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Carol 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

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