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

Macilwain, C. (2014). Europe needs a research leader who will lead. Nature, 512(7512), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rybczynski, N., & Reisz, R. R. (2001). Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature, 411(6838), 684–687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, L., Friedman, N., & Xie, X. S. (2006). Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level. Nature, 440(7082), 358–362.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, H.-R., Lee, K., Cho, J., Choi, Y.-H., You, C.-Y., Jung, M.-H., Bonell, F., Shiota, Y., Miwa, S., & Suzuki, Y. (2014). Spin-orbit torque in a bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Pd/FePd/MgO system. Scientific Reports, 4, 6548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, R. (2010). Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

L’Abate, L. (Ed.). (2012). Paradigms in Theory Construction. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamori, K. (2013). A Historical Overview of Social Representation of Earthquake Risk in Japan: Fatalism, Social Reform, Scientific Control and Collaborative Risk Management. In H. Joffe, T. Rossetto, & J. Adams (Eds.), Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century (pp. 73–91). 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 Psychology Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 8). Why Isolated Easter Island Is The Perfect Spot For A Marine Reserve. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-isolated-easter-island-perfect-spot-marine-reserve/

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. (2017). School Bus Safety: Crash Data Trends and Federal and State Requirements (GAO-17-209). 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

Truong, T. (2012). Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water [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

Dynarski, S. (2015, November 20). Where Charter Schools Outperform. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2014; Rybczynski & Reisz, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rybczynski & Reisz, 2001)
Three authors: (Cai et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

Research and Writing Guides