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

Gershon, D. (2000). Western researchers reap rich rewards in eastern institutions. Nature, 407(6804), 657–658.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers, R. D., & Seddon, K. R. (2003). Chemistry. Ionic liquids--solvents of the future? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 792–793.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biertümpfel, C., Yang, W., & Suck, D. (2007). Crystal structure of T4 endonuclease VII resolving a Holliday junction. Nature, 449(7162), 616–620.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cuchet-Lourenço, D., Eletto, D., Wu, C., Plagnol, V., Papapietro, O., Curtis, J., et al. (2018). Biallelic RIPK1 mutations in humans cause severe immunodeficiency, arthritis, and intestinal inflammation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6404), 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shick, P. L. (2007). Topology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

du Plessis, S. S., Agarwal, A., & Sabanegh, E. S., Jr. (Eds.). (2014). Male Infertility: A Complete Guide to Lifestyle and Environmental Factors. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tambouret, R. H., & Wilbur, D. C. (2015). Cytology of Endocervical Glandular Neoplasia. In D. C. Wilbur (Ed.), Glandular Lesions of the Uterine Cervix: Cytopathology with Histologic Correlates (pp. 41–68). New York, NY: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 7). Here’s What The Night Sky Would Look Like If We Could See Every Asteroid. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/awesome-interactive-video-shows-what-we-would-see-if-we-could-see-every-asteroid-night-sky/. 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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Faces Tremendous Challenges in Ensuring That Vital Public Services Are Not Disrupted (No. T-AIMD-98-167). 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

Russo, R. A. (2009). Using a socio -cultural framework to evaluate farmland preservation policy success in Maryland (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Winerip, M., & Schwirtz, M. (2015, December 13). A New York Inmate Dies, and No One Is Punished. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Rogers and Seddon 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rogers and Seddon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Cuchet-Lourenço et al. 2018)

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