How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). The best of both worlds. Seattle. Nature, 417(6889), 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Z., & Herbert, T. D. (2004). High-latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch. Nature, 427(6976), 720–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worthylake, D. K., Rossman, K. L., & Sondek, J. (2000). Crystal structure of Rac1 in complex with the guanine nucleotide exchange region of Tiam1. Nature, 408(6813), 682–688.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wiedemann, N., Kozjak, V., Chacinska, A., Schönfisch, B., Rospert, S., Ryan, M. T., et al. (2003). Machinery for protein sorting and assembly in the mitochondrial outer membrane. Nature, 424(6948), 565–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Girmscheid, G. (2013). Bauprozesse und Bauverfahren des Tunnelbaus. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sako, K., & Sarkar, P. (Eds.). (2013). Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2013: 19th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Bengaluru, India, December 1-5, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 8269). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hess, S., Bierlaire, M., & Polak, J. W. (2005). Capturing Correlation and Taste Heterogeneity with Mixed GEV Models. In R. Scarpa & A. Alberini (Eds.), Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics (pp. 55–75). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016, August 23). Sobering Sea Ice Levels Are The 'New Normal”, According To NASA. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sobering-sea-ice-levels-are-the-new-normal-according-to-nasa/. 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. (2008). Aviation Security: TSA Is Enhancing Its Oversight of Air Carrier Efforts to Identify Passengers on the No Fly and Selectee Lists, but Expects Ultimate Solution to Be Implementation of Secure Flight (No. GAO-08-992). 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

Johnson, D. M. (2015). Prison nursery programs: Measuring society’s perceptions and support (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Crow, K. (2002, May 12). Cathedral Needs Alms In the Wake of Calamity. New York Times, p. 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Herbert 2004; Smaglik 2002).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Herbert 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wiedemann et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Psychother.
ISSN (print)	0022-0116
ISSN (online)	1573-3564
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology