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

Oppenheim, J. (2008). Physics. For quantum information, two wrongs can make a right. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5897), 1783–1784.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rybczynski, N., & Reisz, R. R. (2001). Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature, 411(6838), 684–687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schröter, C., Kosma, K., & Schultz, T. (2011). CRASY: mass- or electron-correlated rotational alignment spectroscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6045), 1011–1015.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ramsuran, V., Naranbhai, V., Horowitz, A., Qi, Y., Martin, M. P., Yuki, Y., et al. (2018). Elevated HLA-A expression impairs HIV control through inhibition of NKG2A-expressing cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6371), 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vakkur, N. V., & Herrera, Z. J. (2013). Corporate Governance Regulation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Piecha, T., & Schroeder-Heister, P. (Eds.). (2016). Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics (Vol. 43). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rovira Más, F., Zhang, Q., & Hansen, A. C. (2011). Local Perception Systems. In Q. Zhang & A. C. Hansen (Eds.), Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles (pp. 75–110). London: 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

Davis, J. (2016, July 13). AIDS Epidemic In Australia Declared “Over” By Experts. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/aids-epidemic-in-australia-declared-over-by-experts/. 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. (1992). Highway Safety: Safety Belt Use Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society (No. RCED-92-106). 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

Morgan, T. M. (2017). Do You See What I See? How Symbol Integration Facilitates Responsibility to Self and Culture (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, May 29). Hello? Dolly? Bette Midler Might Not Sing at Tonys. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Oppenheim 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Oppenheim 2008; Rybczynski and Reisz 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rybczynski and Reisz 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ramsuran 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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