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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Consulting and Clinical 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	Download the output style file
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

Stella, N. (2011). Cell biology. Anatomy of prostaglandin signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 768–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ihinger, P. D., & Zink, S. I. (2000). Determination of relative growth rates of natural quartz crystals. Nature, 404(6780), 865–869.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chouard, T., Weiss, U., & Dhand, R. (2002). Good “omics” for the poor? Nature, 419(6906), 489.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

DasGupta, R., Kaykas, A., Moon, R. T., & Perrimon, N. (2005). Functional genomic analysis of the Wnt-wingless signaling pathway. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5723), 826–833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pashley, R. M., & Karaman, M. E. (2005). Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gollmann, D., Lanet, J.-L., & Iguchi-Cartigny, J. (Eds.). (2010). Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6035). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Houchens, N., & Kim, C. S. (2014). The Application of Lean in the Healthcare Sector: Theory and Practical Examples. In N. Wickramasinghe, L. Al-Hakim, C. Gonzalez, & J. Tan (Eds.), Lean Thinking for Healthcare (pp. 43–53). 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 Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 21). What’s Causing This Mysterious Sleeping Sickness In A Village In Kazakhstan? 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. (1977). Safeguarding Taxpayer Information: An Evaluation of the Proposed Computerized Tax Administration System (LCD-76-115). 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

Wignall, J. (2013). No longer in the shadows: Identity, citizenship, and belonging among undocumented college students in Southern California [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

Shear, M. D., & Baker, P. (2017, May 20). Saudis Welcome Trump’s Rebuff Of Obama’s Views. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stella, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ihinger & Zink, 2000; Stella, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ihinger & Zink, 2000)
Three authors: (Chouard et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (DasGupta et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Consult. Clin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-006X
ISSN (online)	1939-2117
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology