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

Bally, J. (2015). Astrophysics: Mystery survivor of a supermassive black hole. Nature, 524(7565), 301–302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby, J., & Thursby, M. (2006). Research and development. Where is the new science in corporate R&D? Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5805), 1547–1548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hollenstein, K., Frei, D. C., & Locher, K. P. (2007). Structure of an ABC transporter in complex with its binding protein. Nature, 446(7132), 213–216.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, C.-X., Zheng, Y.-X., Zheng, X.-H., Hu, Q., Zhao, Y., Ji, L.-N., & Mao, Z.-W. (2013). V-shaped dinuclear Pt(II) complexes: selective interaction with human telomeric G-quadruplex and significant inhibition towards telomerase. Scientific reports, 3, 2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen, A. A., & Forcinito, M. A. (2004). Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error-Correction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Liu, B., & Chai, C. (Eds.). (2011). Information Computing and Applications: Second International Conference, ICICA 2011, Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-31, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 7030). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chow, B. H. (2013). The Virtual-Reality Campuses Project. In Y. Cai (Ed.), 3D Immersive and Interactive Learning (pp. 59–70). Singapore: 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

Fang, J. (2015, August 28). Cranes Are Reluctant To Fly In The Fog. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cranes-are-reluctant-fly-fog/. 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. (2015). Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked (No. GAO-15-296). 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

Bible, P. W. (2013). Integrating Heterogeneous Datasets for Functional Profiling of Transcription Factors and Their Target Genes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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. (2007, October 11). As Sarkozy and Putin Meet, Iran Quickly Comes Between Them. New York Times, p. A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bally 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bally 2015; Thursby and Thursby 2006).

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

Two authors: (Thursby and Thursby 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2013)

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

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