How to format your references using the European Journal of Psychotraumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Smaglik, P. (2004). Up for review. Nature, 430(6999), 591.
A journal article with 2 authors
Boal, A. K., & Rosenzweig, A. C. (2012). Biochemistry. A radical route for nitrogenase carbide insertion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6102), 1617–1618.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lazzaro, B. P., Sceurman, B. K., & Clark, A. G. (2004). Genetic basis of natural variation in D. melanogaster antibacterial immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5665), 1873–1876.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Katayama, Y., Inamura, Y., Mizutani, T., Yamakata, M., Utsumi, W., & Shimomura, O. (2004). Macroscopic separation of dense fluid phase and liquid phase of phosphorus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 848–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Koepsell, D. (2015). Who Owns You? John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
An edited book
Suh, Y. J., Berndt, J., Ohnita, Y., Kim, B. H., & Lee, H. (Eds.). (2014). Real and Complex Submanifolds: Daejeon, Korea, August 2014 (Vol. 106). Springer Japan.
A chapter in an edited book
Stranahan, A. M., & Mattson, M. P. (2010). Stress Hormones and Neuroplasticity in the Diabetic Brain. In S. Craft & Y. Christen (Eds.), Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease (pp. 57–71). 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 European Journal of Psychotraumatology.

Blog post
Hale, T. (2016, October 4). Man Documents The Moments After He Survives Two Bear Attacks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-documents-the-moments-after-he-survives-two-bear-attacks/

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. (1995). Weather Forecasting: Unmet Needs and Unknown Costs Warrant Reassessment of Observing System Plans (AIMD-95-81). 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
Crumlish, S. B. (2014). Domingo Chileno: An Overture for Orchestra [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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
Rueck, K. (1972, June 11). “ LITTLE TIME FOR EXTRAS”; What’s a Stewardess. New York Times, travel and resorts-summer vacations-part 1XX4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Boal & Rosenzweig, 2012; Smaglik, 2004).

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

  • Two authors: (Boal & Rosenzweig, 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Katayama et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
ISSN (print)2000-8198
ISSN (online)2000-8066
Scope

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