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

Bender, E. (2015). Big data in biomedicine: 4 big questions. Nature, 527(7576), S19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer, J. D., & Foley, D. (2009). The economy needs agent-based modelling. Nature, 460(7256), 685–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tagliabue, G., Eghlidi, H., & Poulikakos, D. (2014). Rapid-response low infrared emission broadband ultrathin plasmonic light absorber. Scientific Reports, 4, 7181.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Beck, M., Förster, F., Ecke, M., Plitzko, J. M., Melchior, F., Gerisch, G., Baumeister, W., & Medalia, O. (2004). Nuclear pore complex structure and dynamics revealed by cryoelectron tomography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5700), 1387–1390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kromidas, S. (2014). Der HPLC-Experte. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Yin, Y. (2011). Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design (I. Kaku, J. Tang, & J. Zhu, Eds.; 1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, S., Xu, F., Feng, L., & Xiang, X. (2015). Abnormal Uterine Development. In L. Zhu, F. Wong, & J. Lang (Eds.), Atlas of Surgical Correction of Female Genital Malformation (pp. 207–241). 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 International Journal of Art Therapy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, July 31). Females Rise in Baboon Ranks With Help From Moms and Sisters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/females-rise-baboon-ranks-help-moms-and-sisters/

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. (1998). Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures (OGC-98-26). 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

Parisi, J. (2012). Correlation of Conditional Admittance and Student Achievement in an Undergraduate Higher Education Setting [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

Brantley, B. (2017, March 14). Where Heathcliff Fears to Tread. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bender, 2015; Farmer & Foley, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Farmer & Foley, 2009)
Three authors: (Tagliabue et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Beck 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