How to format your references using the Journal of Poetry Therapy citation style

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

Margolis, H. S. (2013). Physics. Opportunities knock with a more stable optical clock. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1185–1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidder, S. Q., & Vonder Haar, T. H. (2010). Atmospheric science. Observing weather from space. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1085–1086.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida, M.-A., Yura, K., & Ogura, A. (2014). Cephalopod eye evolution was modulated by the acquisition of Pax-6 splicing variants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4256.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Geleziunas, R., Xu, W., Takeda, K., Ichijo, H., & Greene, W. C. (2001). HIV-1 Nef inhibits ASK1-dependent death signalling providing a potential mechanism for protecting the infected host cell. Nature, 410(6830), 834–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zink, M. (2005). Scalable Video on Demand. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Gordon, A. D. (Ed.). (2010). Programming Languages and Systems: 19th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6012). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eppelbaum, L., & Khesin, B. (2012). Regional Physical-Geological Models and Regioning. In B. Khesin (Ed.), Geophysical Studies in the Caucasus (pp. 139–217). 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 Poetry Therapy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 6). How Do Balancing Rocks Survive Earthquakes? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Education Taking Needed Actions But Work Remains (T-AIMD-99-180). 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

Senaga, K. A. (2016). Tasteless, cheap, and southern? The rise and decline of the farm-raised catfish industry [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Wagner, J. (2016, October 1). Battered but Persevering, Mets Reach the Threshold of the Postseason. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Margolis, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kidder & Vonder Haar, 2010; Margolis, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kidder & Vonder Haar, 2010)
Three authors: (Yoshida et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Geleziunas et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Poetry Therapy
Abbreviation	J. Poet. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0889-3675
ISSN (online)	1567-2344
Scope	Rehabilitation Clinical Psychology