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 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

Crepp, J. R. (2014). Astronomy. Improving planet-finding spectrometers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6211), 809–810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, M., & Barash, S. (2000). Neuronal switching of sensorimotor transformations for antisaccades. Nature, 408(6815), 971–975.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christodoulides, D. N., Lederer, F., & Silberberg, Y. (2003). Discretizing light behaviour in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices. Nature, 424(6950), 817–823.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clemente-Blanco, A., Mayán-Santos, M., Schneider, D. A., Machín, F., Jarmuz, A., Tschochner, H., & Aragón, L. (2009). Cdc14 inhibits transcription by RNA polymerase I during anaphase. Nature, 458(7235), 219–222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolinski, M. (2011). Plastics and Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rensink, A., & Warmer, J. (Eds.). (2006). Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications: Second European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2006, Bilbao, Spain, July 10-13, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4066). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaikovina Kula, R., Fushida, K., Kawaguchi, S., & Iida, H. (2010). Analysis of Bug Fixing Processes Using Program Slicing Metrics. In M. Ali Babar, M. Vierimaa, & M. Oivo (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 11th International Conference, PROFES 2010, Limerick, Ireland, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 32–46). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, January 8). What’s The Difference Between An Outbreak And An Epidemic? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-s-difference-between-outbreak-and-epidemic/

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. (1975). Data on the Office of Education’s Use of Funds for Conferences, Seminars, and Training Sessions, and Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations in Lieu of Federal Employees (MWD-75-88). 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, J. M. (2011). A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal [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

Conte, L. (2011, April 21). Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crepp, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Crepp, 2014; Zhang & Barash, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Zhang & Barash, 2000)
Three authors: (Christodoulides et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Clemente-Blanco et al., 2009)

About the journal

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

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