How to format your references using the Contemporary School Psychology citation style

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

Fröbisch, J. (2011). Paleontology. On dental occlusion and saber teeth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6024), 1525–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Class, C., & Goldstein, S. L. (2005). Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth’s mantle. Nature, 436(7054), 1107–1112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou, C., Samzun, A., & Zivie, A. (2004). Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature, 427(6971), 211–212.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shen, K., Zhang, L., Chen, X., Liu, L., Zhang, D., Han, Y., et al. (2018). Ordered macro-microporous metal-organic framework single crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6372), 206–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billington, D. P. (2013). Der Turm und die Brücke. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Rostami, A. (2011). Terahertz Technology: Fundamentals and Applications. (H. Rasooli & H. Baghban, Eds.) (Vol. 77). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, B., Sy, S. K. B., & Derendorf, H. (2014). Principles of Applied Pharmacokinetic–Pharmacodynamic Modeling. In A. A. Vinks, H. Derendorf, & J. W. Mouton (Eds.), Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (pp. 63–79). New York, NY: 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 Contemporary School Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, May 9). Scientists Reveal How Humanity Could Survive The End Of The World. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-astrophysicists-explain-how-humanity-could-survive-end-world/. 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. (2014). Aviation Safety: FAA’s Efforts to Implement Recommendations to Improve Certification and Regulatory Consistency Face Some Challenges (No. GAO-14-728T). 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

Manners, A. T. (2008). Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wines, M. (2014, November 26). A Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fröbisch 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Class and Goldstein 2005; Fröbisch 2011).

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

Two authors: (Class and Goldstein 2005)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary School Psychology
Abbreviation	Contemp. Sch. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2159-2020
ISSN (online)	2161-1505
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