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

Verma, I. (2005). Then and now. Nature, 436(7050), 478–479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambeck, K., & Chappell, J. (2001). Sea level change through the last glacial cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5517), 679–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pandey, S., Goswami, G. K., & Nanda, K. K. (2013). Nanocomposite based flexible ultrasensitive resistive gas sensor for chemical reactions studies. Scientific reports, 3, 2082.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jadzinsky, P. D., Calero, G., Ackerson, C. J., Bushnell, D. A., & Kornberg, R. D. (2007). Structure of a thiol monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle at 1.1 A resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5849), 430–433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, A. W., & Frobenius, R. (2008). RF Measurements for Cellular Phones and Wireless Data Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., & Quesada-Arencibia, A. (Eds.). (2015). Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2015: 15th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 8-13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9520). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hashmi, A. S. (2016). Historical Roots of the Deobandi Version of Jihadism and Its Implications for Violence in Today’s Pakistan. In J. Syed, E. Pio, T. Kamran, & A. Zaidi (Eds.), Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan (pp. 133–161). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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. (2014, August 20). Two Ancient Maya Cities Unearthed In Mexican Jungle. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-ancient-maya-cities-unearthed-mexican-jungle/. 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. (1995). Transportation Trust Funds (No. AIMD-95-95R). 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

Berkowitz, A. E. (2015). Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions (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

Barron, J. (2017, April 28). A Hospital, Once Afloat, Is Buoyant With Over a Century of Memories. New York Times, p. A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verma 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lambeck and Chappell 2001; Verma 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lambeck and Chappell 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jadzinsky et al. 2007)

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