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

Rahmstorf, S. (2002). Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years. Nature, 419(6903), 207–214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, K. R., & Ellis, B. (2002). A tropical rainforest in Colorado 1.4 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2379–2383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hart, G. W., Housley, M. P., & Slawson, C. (2007). Cycling of O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine on nucleocytoplasmic proteins. Nature, 446(7139), 1017–1022.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Petrović, A. P., Paré, A., Paudel, T. R., Lee, K., Holmes, S., Barnes, C. H. W., David, A., Wu, T., Tsymbal, E. Y., & Panagopoulos, C. (2014). Long-range electronic reconstruction to a dxz,yz-dominated Fermi surface below the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface. Scientific Reports, 4, 5338.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cabaniss, D. L., Cherry, S., Douglas, C. J., & Schwartz, A. (2010). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cao, J., Yang, L. T., Guo, M., & Lau, F. (Eds.). (2005). Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Second International Symposium, ISPA 2004, Hong Kong, China, December 13-15, 2004. Proceedings (Vol. 3358). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, J., & Wen, C. (2008). Multivariable Adaptive Control. In C. Wen (Ed.), Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems: Nonsmooth Nonlinearities, Interactions or Time-Variations (pp. 51–64). 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

Hale, T. (2016, September 2). Exploding Battery Fears Cause Samsung To Recall Every Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/exploding-battery-fears-cause-samsung-to-recall-every-galaxy-note-7-smartphone/

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. (1992). Advance Sheets: Volume 72, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States (No. 148654). 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

Skinner, M. (2008). Enamel -dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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, August 24). Mets Quickly Lose Niese to Injury but Still Get a Win. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rahmstorf, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson & Ellis, 2002; Rahmstorf, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Ellis, 2002)
Three authors: (Hart et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Petrović 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

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