How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings citation style

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

Branco, T. (2011). Eppendorf winner. The language of dendrites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 615–616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, G., & Zheng, S.-Y. (2014). Construction of a high-performance magnetic enzyme nanosystem for rapid tryptic digestion. Scientific reports, 4, 6947.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munoz, F., Couteron, P., & Hubbell, S. P. (2012). Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Farroni, T., Chiarelli, A. M., Lloyd-Fox, S., Massaccesi, S., Merla, A., Di Gangi, V., et al. (2013). Infant cortex responds to other humans from shortly after birth. Scientific reports, 3, 2851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gallant, B. J. (2006). Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kerschen, G. (Ed.). (2016). Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakata, K., & Sabelfeld, A. (2010). Securing Class Initialization. In M. Nishigaki, A. Jøsang, Y. Murayama, & S. Marsh (Eds.), Trust Management IV: 4th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2010, Morioka, Japan, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 48–62). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, May 5). Can You Really Be Addicted To Love? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-you-really-be-addicted-to-love/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1971). Examination Into the Manner in Which the Office of Education Is Administering the Teacher Corps Program (No. 093028). Washington, DC: 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

Swann, E. (2014). Adult learning for healthy aging: An investigation of health literacy and technology use in older adults (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, August 4). The Mets Believe Cabrera Could Be a Keeper. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Branco 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Branco 2011; Cheng and Zheng 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Zheng 2014)
Three or more authors: (Farroni et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Psychol. Med. Settings
ISSN (print)	1068-9583
ISSN (online)	1573-3572
Scope	Clinical Psychology