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

Brasaemle, D. L. (2006). Cell biology. A metabolic push to proliferate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5793), 1581–1582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raşa, M., & Philipse, A. P. (2004). Evidence for a macroscopic electric field in the sedimentation profiles of charged colloids. Nature, 429(6994), 857–860.

A journal article with 3 authors

Houlié, N., Dreger, D., & Kim, A. (2014). GPS source solution of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. Scientific Reports, 4, 3646.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Asvany, O., P, P. K., Redlich, B., Hegemann, I., Schlemmer, S., & Marx, D. (2005). Understanding the infrared spectrum of bare CH5+. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1219–1222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanchez, A., & Carro, B. (2017). Digital Services in the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Roa Romero, L. M. (Ed.). (2014). XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013: MEDICON 2013, 25-28 September 2013, Seville, Spain (Vol. 41). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Britt, S. L., Halley, R. E., & Durband, D. B. (2012). Training and Development of Financial Education Program Staff. In D. B. Durband & S. L. Britt (Eds.), Student Financial Literacy: Campus-Based Program Development (pp. 37–55). Springer US.

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, D. (2015, August 29). Watch A Red-Hot Ball Of Nickel Melt A Bowl Of Jello From The Inside Out. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-boiling-hot-nickel-ball-melt-bowl-jello-inside-out/

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). Office of Education’s Basic Grant Program Can Be Improved (HRD-77-91). 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

Barnett, J. (2017). Understanding gender differences in teachers’ level of insight as it relates to ADHD [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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, August 2). Back in Baltimore, Anthony Decides to Speak, but Doesn’t Say Much. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brasaemle, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Brasaemle, 2006; Raşa & Philipse, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Raşa & Philipse, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Asvany 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