How to format your references using the Contemporary Family Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Family Therapy. 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

Komarova, N. L. (2015). Cancer: A moving target. Nature, 525(7568), 198–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrams, D. M., & Strogatz, S. H. (2003). Linguistics: modelling the dynamics of language death. Nature, 424(6951), 900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bode, F., Sachs, F., & Franz, M. R. (2001). Tarantula peptide inhibits atrial fibrillation. Nature, 409(6816), 35–36.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hindupur, S. K., Colombi, M., Fuhs, S. R., Matter, M. S., Guri, Y., Adam, K., et al. (2018). The protein histidine phosphatase LHPP is a tumour suppressor. Nature, 555(7698), 678–682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanna, V. K. (2005). Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor IGBT Theory and Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bradley, R. E. (2009). Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse: An Annotated Translation. (C. E. Sandifer, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oestreicher, L. (2009). Teaching Human-Computer Interaction from Real World Examples — Furnishing Creativity? In P. Kotzé, W. Wong, J. Jorge, A. Dix, & P. A. Silva (Eds.), Creativity and HCI: From Experience to Design in Education (pp. 60–77). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Contemporary Family Therapy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 16). Bats Navigate in 3D Using a Donut-Shaped Compass in Their Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bats-navigate-3d-using-donut-shaped-compass-their-brain/. 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. (2001). USDA Electronic Filing: Progress Made, But Central Leadership and Comprehensive Implementation Plan Needed (No. GAO-01-324). 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

Grosso, T. (2015). Exploring How Older Adults Who Qualify for the Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (AADD) Programs and Services Learn to Successfully Age in Place (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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. (2017, January 6). The Sport of Struggle. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Komarova 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Abrams and Strogatz 2003; Komarova 2015).

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

Two authors: (Abrams and Strogatz 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hindupur et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Family Therapy
Abbreviation	Contemp. Fam. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0892-2764
ISSN (online)	1573-3335
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cultural Studies General Psychology