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

Dobson, A. P. (2005). Virology. What links bats to emerging infectious diseases? Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 628–629.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhat, S. G., & Kumar, P. S. A. (2014). Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector. Scientific Reports, 4, 5588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vaupel, J. W., Carey, J. R., & Christensen, K. (2003). Aging. It’s never too late. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1679–1681.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cho, T.-Y., Han, C.-W., Jun, Y., & Yoon, S.-G. (2013). Formation of artificial pores in nano-TiO2 photo-electrode films using acetylene-black for high-efficiency, dye-sensitized solar cells. Scientific Reports, 3, 1496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone, R. (2012). The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wilcox, P. (2009). Pulmonary Function Tests in Clinical Practice (J. Road & A. Altalag, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D. (2016). Resilience of Spatial Networks. In J. Lü, X. Yu, G. Chen, & W. Yu (Eds.), Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications (pp. 79–106). 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, September 9). Why The Cradle Of Humankind Is One Of The Most Precious Fossil Sites In The World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-cradle-humankind-one-most-precious-fossil-sites-world/

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. (1996). Private Management of Public Schools: Early Experiences in Four School Districts (HEHS-96-3). 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

Crosby, A. E. (2012). A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, December 16). Nation’s ‘First Suburb’ Aims to Be Most ‘Green.’ New York Times, 14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bhat & Kumar, 2014; Dobson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bhat & Kumar, 2014)
Three authors: (Vaupel et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Cho et al., 2013)

About the journal

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