How to format your references using the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice 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

Vaux, D. L. (2012). Research methods: Know when your numbers are significant. Nature, 492(7428), 180–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Newman, D. K., & Kolter, R. (2000). A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer. Nature, 405(6782), 94–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

White, L. E., Coppola, D. M., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2001). The contribution of sensory experience to the maturation of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex. Nature, 411(6841), 1049–1052.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Okamoto, M., Sugisaki, K., Murata, H., Hirasawa, H., Mayama, C., & Asaoka, R. (2014). Impact of better and worse eye damage on quality of life in advanced glaucoma. Scientific Reports, 4, 4144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner, D. (2016). A History of Modern Drama. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Choi, T.-M., & Cheng, T. C. E. (Eds.). (2015). Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management: From Sourcing to Retailing (Vol. 1). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

De Cauwer, M., & O’Sullivan, B. (2013). A Study of Electricity Price Features on Distributed Internet Data Centers. In J. Altmann, K. Vanmechelen, & O. F. Rana (Eds.), Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 10th International Conference, GECON 2013, Zaragoza, Spain, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 60–73). 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 Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 5). 19 Year Old Develops Machine To Clean The Oceans Of Plastic. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/19-year-old-develops-machine-clean-oceans-plastic/

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. (1977). Answers to Questions With Regard to Statements on the Office of Technology Assessment (B-177806). 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

Horaist, D. W. (2015). Estimating Seed Bank Responses to Changing Environmental Conditions in the Louisiana Coastal Zone [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

Krauss, C. (2015, August 14). Breakdown at BP Refinery Strains Midwest Gas Prices. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vaux, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Newman & Kolter, 2000; Vaux, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Newman & Kolter, 2000)
Three authors: (White et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Okamoto et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research
Abbreviation	Consult. Psychol. J.
ISSN (print)	1065-9293
ISSN (online)	1939-0149
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