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

Wadman, M. (2015). Treatment: When less is more. Nature, 528(7582), S126-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willimsky, G., & Blankenstein, T. (2005). Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance. Nature, 437(7055), 141–146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tong, S., Meagher, S., & Vollenhoven, B. (2002). Sonography: dizygotic twin survival in early pregnancy. Nature, 416(6877), 142.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gao, F., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Liu, Y., Zheng, L., Yang, J., Huang, W., Ye, Y., Luo, W., & Xiao, D. (2014). Hes1 is involved in the self-renewal and tumourigenicity of stem-like cancer cells in colon cancer. Scientific Reports, 4, 3963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Démoulin, B., & Besnier, P. (2011). Electromagnetic Reverberation Chambers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sawai, M. (Ed.). (2016). Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire. Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

de Bergh, C., Schaller, E. L., Brown, M. E., Brunetto, R., Cruikshank, D. P., & Schmitt, B. (2013). The Ices on Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs. In M. S. Gudipati & J. Castillo-Rogez (Eds.), The Science of Solar System Ices (pp. 107–146). 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

Luntz, S. (2017, January 9). Vaporized Comets Or Asteroids Detected Around A Young Star. 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. (1978). Review of NASA’s Solicitation for the Leasing of Office Space in the Houston, Texas, Area (LCD-78-325). 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

Unison-Pace, W. J. (2015). Investigating generational differences of perceived uncivilized behaviors between students and faculty in nursing education [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Isherwood, C. (2016, April 14). The Best Religion? A Believer Answers. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wadman, 2015; Willimsky & Blankenstein, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Willimsky & Blankenstein, 2005)
Three authors: (Tong et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

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

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