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

Zieminska, D. (2015). High-energy physics: Proton smasher spots rare particle decays. Nature, 522(7554), 42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavier, L. L., & Manatschal, G. (2006). A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins. Nature, 440(7082), 324–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lebedev, S., Chevrot, S., & van der Hilst, R. D. (2002). Seismic evidence for olivine phase changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1300–1302.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Daley, D. O., Rapp, M., Granseth, E., Melén, K., Drew, D., & von Heijne, G. (2005). Global topology analysis of the Escherichia coli inner membrane proteome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1321–1323.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte, S. (2016). Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Keener, J., & Sneyd, J. (Eds.). (2009). Mathematical Physiology: II: Systems Physiology (Vol. 8/2). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Santos, N. C., Melo, C., Pont, F., Guillot, T., Ecuvillon, A., Mayor, M., et al. (2008). High-resolution Spectroscopy of Faint Stars with Transiting Planets. In Nuno C. Santos, L. Pasquini, A. C. M. Correia, & M. Romaniello (Eds.), Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006 (pp. 21–24). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 12). News About The Success Of A New Ebola Vaccine May Be Too Good To Be True. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/news-about-success-new-ebola-vaccine-may-be-too-good-be-true/. 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. (1988). Space Shuttle: External Tank Procurement Does Not Comply With Competition in Contracting Act (No. NSIAD-89-62). 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

Morikawa, T. (2010). Aerodynamic analysis of an over-the-wing engine-mount aircraft (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

Dollinger, A., & Rosenberg, E. (2017, May 2). Foster Father Acquitted Of Sex Abuse Charges. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zieminska 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lavier and Manatschal 2006; Zieminska 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lavier and Manatschal 2006)
Three or more authors: (Daley et al. 2005)

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