How to format your references using the International Journal of Art Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Art Therapy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Savage, N. (2015). Proteomics: High-protein research. Nature, 527(7576), S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrahamsen, H., & Stenmark, H. (2011). Cell biology. Growth signaling from inside. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 611–612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glover, J. D., Reganold, J. P., & Cox, C. M. (2012). Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa’s soils. Nature, 489(7416), 359–361.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Strobel, P., Riedel, M., Ristein, J., & Ley, L. (2004). Surface transfer doping of diamond. Nature, 430(6998), 439–441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smaini, L. (2012). RF Analog Impairments Modeling for Communication Systems Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Haddad, S. A. P. (2009). Ultra Low-Power Biomedical Signal Processing: An Analog Wavelet Filter Approach for Pacemakers (W. A. Serdijn, Ed.). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, G., Zhang, Q., & Yan, X. (2015). Observer-Based Feedback Stabilization. In Q. Zhang & X. Yan (Eds.), Analysis and Design of Singular Markovian Jump Systems (pp. 161–178). Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Art Therapy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 1). This Guy Built A Homemade Hoverbike In His Shed. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1993). Urban Transportation: Issues Related to the South Corridor Study (RCED-93-195BR). 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

Rodriguez, J. M. (2008). Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Williams, J. (2017, May 25). Alain Mabanckou. New York Times, C18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011; Savage, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Strobel et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Art Therapy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Art Ther.
ISSN (print)	1745-4832
ISSN (online)	1745-4840
Scope	Rehabilitation Clinical Psychology