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

Javanainen, J. (2005). Physics. Bose-Einstein condensates interfere and survive. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1883–1885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant, P. R., & Grant, B. R. (2006). Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5784), 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, S., Chan, V. T., & Merzenich, M. M. (2001). Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature, 412(6842), 79–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, B. J., Ohsumi, H., Komesu, T., Sakai, S., Morita, T., Takagi, H., & Arima, T. (2009). Phase-sensitive observation of a spin-orbital Mott state in Sr2IrO4. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1329–1332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, B. G. (2013). Wealth Exposed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Johnson, G., & Dempster, N. (Eds.). (2016). Leadership in Diverse Learning Contexts (Vol. 22). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Booij, G., & Masini, F. (2015). The Role of Second Order Schemas in the Construction of Complex Words. In L. Bauer, L. Körtvélyessy, & P. Štekauer (Eds.), Semantics of Complex Words (pp. 47–66). 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

Hale, T. (2016, December 7). Google Wants To Run On 100% Renewable Energy By 2017. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-wants-to-run-on-100-renewable-energy-by-2017/

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. (2012). Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes (GAO-13-43). 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

Wheeler, J. A. (2012). The Scaling of High Harmonics with Mid-Infrared Driving Fields and a Method for the Spatial Isolation of Individual Subfemtosecond Pulses [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Williams, J. (2016, September 25). A Timeless Observer. New York Times, BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Javanainen, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Grant & Grant, 2006; Javanainen, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Grant & Grant, 2006)
Three authors: (Bao et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2009)

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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