How to format your references using the Psychodynamic Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychodynamic Practice. 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
Teitelbaum, M. S. (2008). Research funding. Structural disequilibria in biomedical research. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 644–645.
A journal article with 2 authors
Jamison, D. T., & Sandbu, M. E. (2001). Global health. WHO ranking of health system performance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1595–1596.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kinoshita, T., Wenger, T., & Weiss, D. S. (2004). Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1125–1128.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Patil, V., Capone, A., Strauf, S., & Yang, E.-H. (2013). Improved photoresponse with enhanced photoelectric contribution in fully suspended graphene photodetectors. Scientific Reports, 3, 2791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Darling-Hammond, L., Meyerson, D., LaPointe, M., Terry Orr, M., Barber, M., Cohen, C., Dailey, K., Davis, S., Flessa, J., Murphy, J., Pecheone, R., & Tushnet, N. (2009). Preparing Principals for a Changing World. Jossey-Bas.
An edited book
Giardi, M. T., Rea, G., & Berra, B. (Eds.). (2010). Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors (Vol. 698). Springer US.
A chapter in an edited book
Altalag, A., Road, J., & Wilcox, P. (2009). Bronchial Challenge Testing. In J. Road & A. Altalag (Eds.), Pulmonary Function Tests in Clinical Practice (pp. 71–79). 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 Psychodynamic Practice.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J. (2016, November 23). Ancient Hot Spring On Mars May Contain Signs Of Past Life. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-hot-spring-on-mars-may-contain-signs-of-past-life/

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). Truck Safety: Improvements Needed in FHwA’s Motor Carrier Safety Program (RCED-91-30). 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
Hernandez, I. (2017). Strong-DISM: A First Attempt to a Dynamically Typed Assembly Language (D-TAL) [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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
Gordon, M. R., & Schmitt, E. (2017, May 9). Defying Turkey, U.S. Will Arm Kurds in Syria. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Teitelbaum, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Jamison & Sandbu, 2001; Teitelbaum, 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Jamison & Sandbu, 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Patil et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titlePsychodynamic Practice
AbbreviationPsychodyn. Pract.
ISSN (print)1475-3634
ISSN (online)1475-3626
ScopeClinical Psychology

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