How to format your references using the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Counselling and Psychotherapy 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

Skands, P. (2014). Particle physics: The mass of a top. Nature, 514(7521), 174–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hijri, M., & Sanders, I. R. (2005). Low gene copy number shows that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inherit genetically different nuclei. Nature, 433(7022), 160–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., & Balser, D. S. (2002). The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature, 415(6867), 54–57.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, F., Li, P., Wang, D., Li, L., Xie, S., Liu, L., Wang, Y., & Li, W. J. (2014). Mechanically modulated dewetting by atomic force microscope for micro- and nano- droplet array fabrication. Scientific Reports, 4, 6524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ribéreau-Gayon, P., Dubourdieu, D., Donèche, B., & Lonvaud, A. (2006). Handbook of Enology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wilson, C. N., & Mustafa, S. J. (Eds.). (2009). Adenosine Receptors in Health and Disease (Vol. 193). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Davidson, J. O. (2016). Treble Troubles? Marketization, Social Protection and Emancipation Considered Through the Lens of Slavery. In C. Karner & B. Weicht (Eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia (pp. 87–114). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 31). Grand Canyon Gray Wolf May Have Been Shot Dead. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/grand-canyon-gray-wolf-may-have-been-shot-dead/

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. (1981). Increased Federal Telecommunications System Use by Strengthened Control Over Commercial Toll Calls Could Reduce Costs (MASAD-82-4). 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

Hawkins, S. H. (2017). Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1994, May 29). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Skands, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hijri & Sanders, 2005; Skands, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hijri & Sanders, 2005)
Three authors: (Bania et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
Abbreviation	Couns. Psychother. Res.
ISSN (print)	1473-3145
ISSN (online)	1746-1405
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology