How to format your references using the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 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

Hamann, T. (2014). Chemistry. Perovskites take lead in solar hydrogen race. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6204), 1566–1567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayashi, T., & Carthew, R. W. (2004). Surface mechanics mediate pattern formation in the developing retina. Nature, 431(7009), 647–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hattori, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2013). Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee. Scientific Reports, 3, 1566.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Marshall, N. M., Garner, D. K., Wilson, T. D., Gao, Y.-G., Robinson, H., Nilges, M. J., & Lu, Y. (2009). Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range. Nature, 462(7269), 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casper, D. (2011). Hollywood Film 1963-1976. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

El-Osery, A., & Prevost, J. (Eds.). (2015). Control and Systems Engineering: A Report on Four Decades of Contributions (Vol. 27). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, M., Tam, H. P., & Jen, T.-H. (2016). Classical Test Theory. In H. P. Tam & T.-H. Jen (Eds.), Educational Measurement for Applied Researchers: Theory into Practice (pp. 73–90). 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 International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 15). A Supernova 50 Light-Years Away Could Start A Mass Extinction. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-supernova-50-lightyears-away-could-start-a-mass-extinction/

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. (1987). Telephone Communications: Issues Affecting Rural Telephone Service (RCED-87-74). 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

Nuno, Z. S. (2012). Visible and mid-infrared optical studies of plasmon and phonon resonant nanoparticles using apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Ember, S. (2016, October 4). Four From BuzzFeed’s Politics Team Defect to CNN. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hamann, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hamann, 2014; Hayashi & Carthew, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hayashi & Carthew, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Marshall et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Clin. Health Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1697-2600
Scope	Clinical Psychology