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

Kauranen, M. (2013). Physics. Freeing nonlinear optics from phase matching. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1182–1183.

A journal article with 2 authors

McSweeney, S., & Fromme, P. (2014). Crystallography: Sources of inspiration. Nature, 505(7485), 620–621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riolo, R. L., Cohen, M. D., & Axelrod, R. (2001). Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. Nature, 414(6862), 441–443.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kuwabata, S., Minamimoto, H., Inoue, K., Imanishi, A., Hosoya, K., Uyama, H., Torimoto, T., Tsuda, T., & Seki, S. (2014). Three-dimensional micro/nano-scale structure fabricated by combination of non-volatile polymerizable RTIL and FIB irradiation. Scientific Reports, 4, 3722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Colloms, M., & Darlington, P. (2005). High Performance Loudspeakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Arena, P., & Patanè, L. (Eds.). (2014). Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots II: An Insect Brain Computational Model (Vol. 21). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Joussen, A. M., & Adamis, A. P. (2007). Inflammation as a Stimulus for Vascular Leakage and Proliferation. In A. M. Joussen, T. W. Gardner, B. Kirchhof, & S. J. Ryan (Eds.), Retinal Vascular Disease (pp. 97–107). 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 Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 10). Could This Biochemist’s Veggie Burger Be The Closest Thing To Real Meat? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-biochemists-veggie-burger-be-closest-thing-real-meat/

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. (1993). Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination (PEMD-93-8). 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

Knight, M. (2012). Technological Advancement in Conflict Assessment: A Case Study of the Fund for Peace’s Universal Network of Local Knowledge in Liberia [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, February 19). Ethel M. Smyth, Opera Composer, Met a Chorus of Critical Disdain in 1903. New York Times, C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kauranen, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kauranen, 2013; McSweeney & Fromme, 2014).

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

Two authors: (McSweeney & Fromme, 2014)
Three authors: (Riolo et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Kuwabata 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
Scope

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