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:

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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Running, S. W. (2012). Ecology. A measurable planetary boundary for the biosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6101), 1458–1459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Niehoff, D. L., & Rhodes, R. (2000). Ideas about the development of violent behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5494), 1093c–1095c.

A journal article with 3 authors

Appelbaum, I., Huang, B., & Monsma, D. J. (2007). Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon. Nature, 447(7142), 295–298.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Anderson, J. D., Schubert, G., Jacobson, R. A., Lau, E. L., Moore, W. B., & Palguta, J. L. (2004). Discovery of mass anomalies on Ganymede. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 989–991.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank, W. L., & Whittle, D. K. (2010). Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Andershed, A.-K. (Ed.). (2013). Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, N. W. E. C. J. R. L., & Paul, T. (2011). Giving Voice to Science from two Perspectives. In L. D. Yore, E. V. der Flier-Keller, D. W. Blades, T. W. Pelton, & D. B. Zandvliet (Eds.), Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned (pp. 67–82). SensePublishers.

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, E. (2015, July 24). Seal Rescued From Cows. 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. (1974). Review of Estimate in Prime Contract N00019-71-C-0450 With Grumman Aerospace Corporation (093132). 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

Heffner, M. D. (2017). Informing Decision-Making for Derailments Involving Hazmat: An Analysis of Phmsa Train Accident Data [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

Sisario, B. (2016, November 16). A Burst of Activity, Then a Fall in the Night. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Niehoff & Rhodes, 2000; Running, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Niehoff & Rhodes, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychodynamic Practice
Abbreviation	Psychodyn. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1475-3634
ISSN (online)	1475-3626
Scope	Clinical Psychology