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
Gille, S. T. (2002). Warming of the Southern Ocean since the 1950s. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5558), 1275–1277.
A journal article with 2 authors
Barth, C., & Reichling, M. (2001). Imaging the atomic arrangements on the high-temperature reconstructed alpha-Al2O3(0001) surface. Nature, 414(6859), 54–57.
A journal article with 3 authors
Chan, P., Curtis, R. A., & Warwicker, J. (2013). Soluble expression of proteins correlates with a lack of positively-charged surface. Scientific Reports, 3, 3333.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Ahluwalia, J., Tinker, A., Clapp, L. H., Duchen, M. R., Abramov, A. Y., Pope, S., Nobles, M., & Segal, A. W. (2004). The large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel is essential for innate immunity. Nature, 427(6977), 853–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Yan, W. (2014). Crop Variety Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Natarajan, R. (Ed.). (2014). Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 10th International Conference, ICDCIT 2014, Bhubaneswar, India, February 6-9, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8337). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Baez Martin, M. M., Morales Chacón, L. M., & Cabrera Abreu, I. (2015). Autism Spectrum Disorder. A Clinical Neurophysiology Approach II. In M. de L. A. Robinson-Agramonte (Ed.), Translational Approaches to Autism Spectrum Disorder (pp. 85–94). 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 Psychodynamic Practice.

Blog post
Andrew, D. (2016, November 27). 30 Scientific Ways Your Childhood Affects Your Success As An Adult. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2004). Air Traffic Control: System Management Capabilities Improved, but More Can Be Done to Institutionalize Improvements (GAO-04-901). 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
Li, L. (2012). Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” [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
(nyt), S. K. (2004, May 19). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gille, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Barth & Reichling, 2001; Gille, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Barth & Reichling, 2001)
  • Three authors: (Chan et al., 2013)
  • 6 or more authors: (Ahluwalia et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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