How to format your references using the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Kasting, J. F. (2001). Earth history. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5531), 819–820.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cheetham, C. E., & Belluscio, L. (2014). Neuroscience. An olfactory critical period. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 157–158.
A journal article with 3 authors
King, M. C., Lusk, C. P., & Blobel, G. (2006). Karyopherin-mediated import of integral inner nuclear membrane proteins. Nature, 442(7106), 1003–1007.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Wang, L., Gural, A., Sun, X.-J., Zhao, X., Perna, F., Huang, G., Hatlen, M. A., Vu, L., Liu, F., Xu, H., Asai, T., Xu, H., Deblasio, T., Menendez, S., Voza, F., Jiang, Y., Cole, P. A., Zhang, J., Melnick, A., … Nimer, S. D. (2011). The leukemogenicity of AML1-ETO is dependent on site-specific lysine acetylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 765–769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Dubuisson, S. (2015). Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Baldassarre, G., & Mirolli, M. (Eds.). (2013). Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems. Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Chen, D., & Lin, C. (2016). Crystal Growth and Characterization of NaxCoO2 and NaxCoO2·yH2O. In C. Lin, A. Maljuk, & F. Zhou (Eds.), Growth and Characterization of Bulk Superconductor Material (pp. 115–142). Springer International Publishing.

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 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Blog post
Taub, B. (2016, May 15). Gay Beetles Have More Fertile Sisters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-so-many-animals-engage-homosexual/

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. (1991). Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Effort (RCED-91-132FS). 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
McDougal, S. (2013). Military Town: Part One [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
Koblin, J. (2016, November 4). HBO Ends Talk Show for Ex-Star of ESPN. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kasting, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cheetham & Belluscio, 2014; Kasting, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Cheetham & Belluscio, 2014)
  • Three authors: (King et al., 2006)
  • 6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal titlePsychoanalytic Psychotherapy
AbbreviationPsychoanal. Psychother.
ISSN (print)0266-8734
ISSN (online)1474-9734
ScopePsychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology

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