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

Gershon, D. (2003). When the chips are down. Nature, 424(6948), 585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sipp, D., & Turner, L. (2012). Stem cells. U.S. regulation of stem cells as medical products. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6112), 1296–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kohguchi, H., Suzuki, T., & Alexander, M. H. (2001). Fully state-resolved differential cross sections for the inelastic scattering of the open-shell NO molecule by Ar. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 832–834.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wei, D., Li, H.-O., Cao, G., Luo, G., Zheng, Z.-X., Tu, T., Xiao, M., Guo, G.-C., Jiang, H.-W., & Guo, G.-P. (2013). Tuning inter-dot tunnel coupling of an etched graphene double quantum dot by adjacent metal gates. Scientific Reports, 3, 3175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hirsch, H. L. (2005). Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gronden, J. W. van de, Szyszczak, E., Neergaard, U., & Krajewski, M. (Eds.). (2011). Health Care and EU Law. T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Pupo, J. C. P., Pupo, J. C. P., Pupo, J. C. P., Mejía, D. M. C., Calderón, C. P. G., Murillo, V. E., Palacio, B. J. M., & de la Rosa Pérez, C. (2013). Air Space and Bronchi – I. In J. C. Pedrozo Pupo (Ed.), Learning Chest Imaging (pp. 73–105). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). Four Things That You Should Know About The EPA Clean Power Plan. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-things-you-should-know-about-epa-clean-power-plan/

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. (1970). Possible Irregularities in the Operation of a Former Neighborhood Youth Corps Project (B-130515). 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

Semple, K., & Chen, D. W. (2015, May 9). In Skelos Case, a Son Whose Life Seemed to Lose Traction Early. 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 (Gershon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2003; Sipp & Turner, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sipp & Turner, 2012)
Three authors: (Kohguchi et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Wei et al., 2013)

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

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