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

Gilbert, D. (2011). Buried by bad decisions. Nature, 474(7351), 275–277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gombosi, T. I., & Ingersoll, A. P. (2010). Saturn: atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5972), 1476–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, J., Ashenhurst, J. A., & Movassaghi, M. (2009). Total synthesis of (+)-11,11’-dideoxyverticillin A. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5924), 238–241.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eisenmesser, E. Z., Bosco, D. A., Akke, M., & Kern, D. (2002). Enzyme dynamics during catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1520–1523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacava, A., Bogucki, J., Bedrytski, A., de Detrich, M., & Neil, B. (2016). Professional Scala. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pujolle, G. (Ed.). (2006). Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-6, 8th IFIP/IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, August 20–25, 2006, Santiago, Chile (Vol. 211). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Hug, D., & Reitzner, M. (2016). Introduction to Stochastic Geometry. In G. Peccati & M. Reitzner (Eds.), Stochastic Analysis for Poisson Point Processes: Malliavin Calculus, Wiener-Itô Chaos Expansions and Stochastic Geometry (pp. 145–184). Springer International Publishing.

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, June 12). Has Meat Met Its Match? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/has-meat-met-its-match/

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. (2013). Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed (GAO-13-695T). 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

Galan, M. (2012). Educational practices to support homeless students [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, September 20). Federal Judges Take Steps To Improve Accountability. 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 (Gilbert, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gilbert, 2011; Gombosi & Ingersoll, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gombosi & Ingersoll, 2010)
Three authors: (Kim et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Eisenmesser et al., 2002)

About the journal

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