How to format your references using the Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. 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

Arthur, C. (2013). Academics should not remain silent on hacking. Nature, 504(7480), 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lubchenco, J., & Grorud-Colvert, K. (2015). OCEAN. Making waves: The science and politics of ocean protection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259), 382–383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, C., Iwahara, J., & Clore, G. M. (2006). Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Nature, 444(7117), 383–386.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Altamirano, M. M., Blackburn, J. M., Aguayo, C., & Fersht, A. R. (2000). Directed evolution of new catalytic activity using the alpha/beta-barrel scaffold. Nature, 403(6770), 617–622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Meier, G. E. A., Sreenivasan, K. R., & Heinemann, H.-J. (Eds.). (2006). IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at DLR-Göttingen, Germany, August 12-14, 2004 (Vol. 129). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, X., & Platt, J. L. (2011). Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Fusion. In T. Dittmar & K. S. Zänker (Eds.), Cell Fusion in Health and Disease (pp. 33–64). Springer Netherlands.

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 Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, April 22). What Happens To The Plastic You Throw Away? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-happens-plastic-you-throw-away/

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. (1988). Space Science: Status of the Hubble Space Telescope Program (NSIAD-88-118BR). 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

Haghighat, R. (2015). An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, October 5). Syndergaard, Last Man Standing, Is Natural Choice for Survival Game. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur, 2013; Lubchenco & Grorud-Colvert, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lubchenco & Grorud-Colvert, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Altamirano et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Couple Family Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2160-4096
ISSN (online)	2160-410X
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