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

Brumfiel, G. (2007). Quantum leap of faith. Nature, 446(7133), 245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bannard, O. M., & Cyster, J. G. (2012). Immunology. When less signaling is more. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1120–1121.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelley, A. M., Michalet, X., & Weiss, S. (2001). Chemical physics. Single-molecule spectroscopy comes of age. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1671–1672.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Domergue, R., Castaño, I., De Las Peñas, A., Zupancic, M., Lockatell, V., Hebel, J. R., Johnson, D., & Cormack, B. P. (2005). Nicotinic acid limitation regulates silencing of Candida adhesins during UTI. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5723), 866–870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Binnie, C. (2016). Linux Server Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Haan, L. de. (2007). Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals (T. Koppelaars, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomovic, C., Walton, A., Ncube, L., Grieves, M., Birtles, B., & Bednar, B. (2009). Measuring the Impact of Product Lifecycle Management: Process Plan, Waste Reduction and Innovations Conceptual Frameworks, and Logic Model for Developing Metrics. In M. Tomovic & S. Wang (Eds.), Product Realization: A Comprehensive Approach (pp. 1–14). 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 Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, May 19). Hubble Captures Dancing Auroras on Saturn. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-captures-dancing-auroras-saturn/

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. (2009). Higher Education and Disability: Education Needs a Coordinated Approach to Improve Its Assistance to Schools in Supporting Students (GAO-10-33). 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

Shah, R. A. (2010). Who am I? A biracial and interfaith woman’s perspective: A personal narrative [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

Kanter, J. (2016, October 30). Bucking Resistance, Canada and E.U. Sign Trade Deal. New York Times, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bannard & Cyster, 2012; Brumfiel, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bannard & Cyster, 2012)
Three authors: (Kelley et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Domergue et al., 2005)

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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