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

Rychert, C. A. (2015). Earth science: The slippery base of a tectonic plate. Nature, 518(7537), 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger, H. L., 3rd, & DeSoto, K. A. (2014). Cognitive psychology. Forgetting the presidents. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6213), 1106–1109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurtovic, A., Widmer, A., & Dickson, B. J. (2007). A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone. Nature, 446(7135), 542–546.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hagleitner, C., Hierlemann, A., Lange, D., Kummer, A., Kerness, N., Brand, O., & Baltes, H. (2001). Smart single-chip gas sensor microsystem. Nature, 414(6861), 293–296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper, C. (2005). Analytic Methods in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Cerny, E. (2015). SVA: The Power of Assertions in SystemVerilog (S. Dudani, J. Havlicek, & D. Korchemny, Eds.; 2nd ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Evans, M. A., & Saint-Aubin, J. (2010). An Eye for Print: Child and Adult Attention to Print During Shared Book Reading. In D. Aram & O. Korat (Eds.), Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures (pp. 43–53). 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 International Journal of Art Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 11). Genetic Link Between Autism And Better Cognitive Ability Found. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genetic-link-between-autism-and-better-cognitive-ability-found/

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. (2013). Building Partner Capacity: Actions Needed to Strengthen DOD Efforts to Assess the Performance of the Regional Centers for Security Studies (GAO-13-606). 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

Shimizu, K. (2013). The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Hodara, S. (2014, August 17). Taking in the History of a City Shaped by the Sea. New York Times, CT10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rychert, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Roediger & DeSoto, 2014; Rychert, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roediger & DeSoto, 2014)
Three authors: (Kurtovic et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Hagleitner et al., 2001)

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