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:

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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Shifting the balance. Nature, 427(6972), 375.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crompton, R. H., & Pataky, T. C. (2009). Anthropology. Stepping out. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahl, C. D., Chen, C.-C., & Rasch, M. J. (2014). Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Scientific Reports, 4, 6654.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yang, D., Carpena-Núñez, J., Fonseca, L. F., Biaggi-Labiosa, A., & Hunter, G. W. (2014). Shape-controlled synthesis of palladium and copper superlattice nanowires for high-stability hydrogen sensors. Scientific Reports, 4, 3773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nicholls, D. L., Piergrossi, J. C., Gibertoni, C. de S., & Daniel, M. A. (2013). Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bain, A. (2009). Fundamentals of Stochastic Filtering (D. Crisan, Ed.; Vol. 60). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hasler, C.-C. (2011). Neuromuscular Spine Deformities. In M. Yazici (Ed.), Non-Idiopathic Spine Deformities in Young Children (pp. 73–75). 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. (2017, May 8). Deer Photographed Gnawing On Human Remains For The First Time. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deer-photographed-gnawing-on-human-remains-for-the-first-time/

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. (1970). Activities of Washington Data Processing Center Statistical Research Service (B-167008). 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

Wistrom, C. A. (2017). Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Novick, S. M. (2015, March 29). When the Brew Is as Crucial as the Bean. New York Times, LI8.

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 (Crompton & Pataky, 2009; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Crompton & Pataky, 2009)
Three authors: (Dahl et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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