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

Vogel, J. (2014). Biochemistry. A bacterial seek-and-destroy system for foreign DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6187), 972–973.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers, G., & Dragert, H. (2003). Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1942–1943.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuragi, S., Tominaga-Yoshino, K., & Ogura, A. (2013). Involvement of TrkB- and p75(NTR)-signaling pathways in two contrasting forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity. Scientific reports, 3, 3185.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bennett, M. R., Pang, W. L., Ostroff, N. A., Baumgartner, B. L., Nayak, S., Tsimring, L. S., & Hasty, J. (2008). Metabolic gene regulation in a dynamically changing environment. Nature, 454(7208), 1119–1122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson, R. L., & Murtha, F. F. (2010). MarketPsych. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

González-Ruibal, A., & Moshenska, G. (Eds.). (2015). Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence (Vol. 2). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bacchelli, A., D’Ambros, M., & Lanza, M. (2010). Are Popular Classes More Defect Prone? In D. S. Rosenblum & G. Taentzer (Eds.), Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 13th International Conference, FASE 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 59–73). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 28). Balloon Capsule That Will Take People To The Edge Of Space Completes Test Flight. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/balloon-will-take-people-edge-space-capsule-completes-test-flight/. 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. (1997). Aviation Insurance: Issues Related to the Reauthorization of FAA’s Aviation Insurance Program (No. T-RCED-97-115). 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

Kalafut, A. J. (2010). Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2002, January 6). Russian Troops Seal Off Town In Search for Chechen Rebels. New York Times, p. 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rogers and Dragert 2003; Vogel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rogers and Dragert 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bennett et al. 2008)

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