How to format your references using the Pastoral Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pastoral Psychology. 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

Pearson, P. N. (2010). Paleoclimate. Increased atmospheric CO₂ during the Middle Eocene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6005), 763–764.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stapel, D. A., & Lindenberg, S. (2011). Coping with chaos: how disordered contexts promote stereotyping and discrimination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 251–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavender, K. L., Davis, R. E., & Owens, W. B. (2000). Mid-depth recirculation observed in the interior Labrador and Irminger seas by direct velocity measurements. Nature, 407(6800), 66–69.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cai, W.-J., Chen, L., Chen, B., Gao, Z., Lee, S. H., Chen, J., et al. (2010). Decrease in the CO2 uptake capacity in an ice-free Arctic Ocean basin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5991), 556–559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W., Shmulevich, I., & Astola, J. (2005). Microarray Quality Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Srinivasan, D., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2010). Innovations in Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - 1 (Vol. 310). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Thapar, N., & Tamanoi, F. (2007). Studies of Protein Farnesylation in Yeast. In J. L. Nitiss & J. Heitman (Eds.), Yeast as a Tool in Cancer Research (pp. 101–122). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Pastoral Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 20). Brewery Has Created Six-Pack Holders That Can Be Eaten By Marine Life. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beer-brewery-has-created-edible-six-pack-holders-protect-marine-life/. 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. (1971). Examination Into the Manner in Which the Office of Education Is Administering the Teacher Corps Program (No. 093028). 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

Vestergaard, E. V. (2015). The shadow in Latvian mythological legends: A Jungian perspective (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2010, May 16). The Accidental Mom. New York Times, p. BR23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pearson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Pearson 2010; Stapel and Lindenberg 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stapel and Lindenberg 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cai et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pastoral Psychology
Abbreviation	Pastoral Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0031-2789
ISSN (online)	1573-6679
Scope	Religious studies Applied Psychology Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science