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

Wu, F. (2014). Perspective: time to face the fungal threat. Nature, 516(7529), S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chhowalla, M., & Amaratunga, G. A. (2000). Thin films of fullerene-like MoS2 nanoparticles with ultra-low friction and wear. Nature, 407(6801), 164–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, K. M., Rog, O., & Cooper, J. P. (2006). Semi-conservative DNA replication through telomeres requires Taz1. Nature, 440(7085), 824–828.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, L., Li, X., Chen, J., Rong, Y., Ku, Z., & Han, H. (2013). Improvement of thiolate/disulfide mediated dye-sensitized solar cells through supramolecular lithium cation assembling of crown ether. Scientific Reports, 3, 2413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smed, J., & Hakonen, H. (2006). Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tiwari, P. (2016). Development Paradigms for Urban Housing in BRICS Countries (J. Rao & J. Day, Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Cook, A. (2013). Feeling Better: Moral Sense and Sensibility in Enlightenment Thought. In H. M. Lloyd (Ed.), The Discourse of Sensibility: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment (pp. 85–103). 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

Luntz, S. (2015, January 15). Meteorite Challenges Theories of Asteroid Formation. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorite-challenges-theories-asteroid-formation/

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. (2007). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of the Transition to the Future Air Traffic Control System (GAO-07-784T). 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

Schliebe, M. C. (2017). Impact of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii ) on benthic community structure in southern California wetlands [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, C. (2014, June 22). Film Delves Into Lives of Strippers in Dallas. New York Times, A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wu, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chhowalla & Amaratunga, 2000; Wu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chhowalla & Amaratunga, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

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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