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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Zimmer, C. (2004). Beyond the ivory tower. A distant mirror for the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5654), 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brent, R., & Lok, L. (2005). Cell biology. A fishing buddy for hypothesis generators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5721), 504–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani, J., Andersen, D. S., & Léopold, P. (2012). Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6081), 582–585.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sakurai, G., Iizumi, T., Nishimori, M., & Yokozawa, M. (2014). How much has the increase in atmospheric CO2 directly affected past soybean production? Scientific Reports, 4, 4978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunne, R. A. (2006). A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, L., & Shafiq, B. (Eds.). (2013). Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXVII: 27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, DBSec 2013, Newark, NJ, USA, July 15-17, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7964). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ary, B., & Imre, S. (2011). Sizing of xDR Processing Systems. In R. Szabó, H. Zhu, S. Imre, & R. Chaparadza (Eds.), Access Networks: 5th International ICST Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2010 and First ICST International Workshop on Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in Access Networks, SELFMAGICNETS 2010, Budapest, Hungary, November 3-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 62–70). 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

Andrew, E. (2016, June 1). Scientists Are Using Drones To Help Predict Coastal Erosion. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-are-using-drones-help-predict-coastal-erosion/

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. (2012). Motor Carrier Safety: New Applicant Reviews Should Expand to Identify Freight Carriers Evading Detection (GAO-12-364). 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

Miramontes, A. J. (2017). Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, C. (2014, May 18). Texas Noir, by Directors Who Aren’t From Texas. New York Times, A25B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmer, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Brent & Lok, 2005; Zimmer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Brent & Lok, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sakurai et al., 2014)

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