How to format your references using the Cognitive Therapy and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cognitive Therapy and Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Malartre, E. (2000). Words, words, words. Nature, 406(6798), 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collerson, K. D., & Weisler, M. I. (2007). Stone adze compositions and the extent of ancient Polynesian voyaging and trade. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1907–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonneh, Y. S., Cooperman, A., & Sagi, D. (2001). Motion-induced blindness in normal observers. Nature, 411(6839), 798–801.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Anderson, T. M., Neiwert, W. A., Kirk, M. L., Piccoli, P. M. B., Schultz, A. J., Koetzle, T. F., et al. (2004). A late-transition metal oxo complex: K7Na9[O=PtIV(H2O)L2], L = [PW9O34]9-. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5704), 2074–2077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Girmscheid, G. (2013). Bauprozesse und Bauverfahren des Tunnelbaus. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ghofar, A. (2015). Corporate Governance and Contingency Theory: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach and Accounting Risk Implications. (S. M. N. Islam, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor, L. D. (2010). Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996–1999. In H. S. Houthakker (Ed.), Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior (pp. 89–106). New York, NY: 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 Therapy and Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, August 18). Could Wormholes Give Us The Long-Sought Theory Of Quantum Gravity? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-wormholes-give-scientists-a-theory-of-quantum-gravity/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2014). School Lunch: Implementing Nutrition Changes Was Challenging and Clarification of Oversight Requirements Is Needed (No. GAO-14-104). Washington, DC: 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

Hoang, V. (2009). Software maintenance: A program slicer using cross referencer (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, October 3). Lincoln Center Scraps $500 Million Renovation. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malartre 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Collerson and Weisler 2007; Malartre 2000).

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

Two authors: (Collerson and Weisler 2007)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Therapy and Research
Abbreviation	Cognit. Ther. Res.
ISSN (print)	0147-5916
ISSN (online)	1573-2819
Scope	Clinical Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology