How to format your references using the Cognitive and Behavioral Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 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

Bradford, P. (2012). Energy policy: The nuclear landscape. Nature, 483(7388), 151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orme, C. M., & Bogan, J. S. (2009). Cell biology. Sorting out diabetes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1155–1156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guiteras, R., Levinsohn, J., & Mobarak, A. M. (2015). Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6237), 903–906.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liang, L., Zhang, J., Zhou, Y., Xie, J., Zhang, X., Guan, M., Pan, B., & Xie, Y. (2013). High-performance flexible electrochromic device based on facile semiconductor-to-metal transition realized by WO3·2H2O ultrathin nanosheets. Scientific Reports, 3, 1936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2008). Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Safety, Security, and Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Badve, S., & Gökmen-Polar, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Molecular Pathology of Breast Cancer. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Okimura, Y. (2015). Branched Chain Amino Acids and Muscle Atrophy Protection. In R. Rajendram, V. R. Preedy, & V. B. Patel (Eds.), Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 2 (pp. 49–63). 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 Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 23). When It Comes To Nature’s Public Enemy Number One, The Mosquito Is A Modern Monster. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-it-comes-nature-s-public-enemy-number-one-mosquito-modern-monster/

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. (1991). Airport Safety: New Radar That Will Help Prevent Accidents Is 4 Years Behind Schedule (T-RCED-91-78). 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

Wang, S. (2017). Experimental Investigations of the Critical Flowback Velocity for Various Types of Proppant in Hydraulic-Fracturing Fluids with Different Viscosities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017, May 5). Rangers Even Series With Emphatic Win as Lindberg Scores Twice. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bradford, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bradford, 2012; Orme & Bogan, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Orme & Bogan, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Abbreviation	Cogn. Behav. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1077-7229
Scope	Clinical Psychology