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

Costandi, M. (2014). Rehabilitation: machine recovery. Nature, 510(7506), S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gorostiza, P., & Isacoff, E. Y. (2008). Optical switches for remote and noninvasive control of cell signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), 395–399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld, S. B., Dal Porto, J. M., & Cambier, J. C. (2002). B cell antigen receptor signaling: roles in cell development and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1641–1642.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Martiniano, R., Coelho, C., Ferreira, M. T., Neves, M. J., Pinhasi, R., & Bradley, D. G. (2014). Genetic evidence of African slavery at the beginning of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Scientific reports, 4, 5994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meier, H. B., Marthinsen, J. E., & Gantenbein, P. A. (2012). Swiss Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sassone, V. (Ed.). (2005). Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 8th International Conference, FOSSACS 2005, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 4-8, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3441). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nava, S., & Fanfulla, F. (2010). Le interfacce per NIV. In F. Fanfulla (Ed.), Ventilazione meccanica non invasiva: Come, quando e perché (pp. 15–19). Milano: 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 Pastoral Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, March 17). NASA Wants To Transform The Sun Into A Insanely Powerful Telescope. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-transform-sun-insanely-powerful-telescope/. 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. (1979). Federal R&D Budget (No. 109022). 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

Rodriguez, S. G. (2010). Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005, May 21). New Yorkers in Moscow Follow Stanislavsky’s Path. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Costandi 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Costandi 2014; Gorostiza and Isacoff 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gorostiza and Isacoff 2008)
Three or more authors: (Martiniano et al. 2014)

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