How to format your references using the Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 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

Robinson, T. E. (2004). Neuroscience. Addicted rats. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 951–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgani, S., & Guzzo, L. (2001). X-ray clusters of galaxies as tracers of structure in the Universe. Nature, 409(6816), 39–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verschure, P. F. M. J., Voegtlin, T., & Douglas, R. J. (2003). Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots. Nature, 425(6958), 620–624.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schön, J. H., Kloc, C., Siegrist, T., Steigerwald, M., Svensson, C., & Batlogg, B. (2001). Superconductivity in single crystals of the fullerene C70. Nature, 413(6858), 831–833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte, S. A. (2015). Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pierce, G. N., Mizin, V. I., & Omelchenko, A. (Eds.). (2013). Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rassart, J., Luyckx, K., & Moons, P. (2015). Adjusting to Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescence: The Role of Patients’ Personality and Self. In E. Callus & E. Quadri (Eds.), Clinical Psychology and Congenital Heart Disease: Lifelong Psychological Aspects and Interventions (pp. 53–67). 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 Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 5). Four Major Cities To Ban All Diesel Vehicles By 2025. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-major-cities-to-ban-all-diesel-vehicles-by-2025/

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. (1992). Job Training Partnership Act: Actions Needed to Improve Participant Support Services (HRD-92-124). 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

Vaughn, E. L. (2013). Find me on Facebook: A new typology for categorizing online personalities [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

Barron, J. (2016, October 16). A Tree Older Than Columbus Finally Succumbs. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Borgani & Guzzo, 2001; Robinson, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Borgani & Guzzo, 2001)
Three authors: (Verschure et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Schön et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
Abbreviation	Psychol. Trauma
ISSN (print)	1942-9681
ISSN (online)	1942-969X
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology