How to format your references using the Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and 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

Lifschitz, V. (2011). John McCarthy (1927-2011). Nature, 480(7375), 40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hetzel, R., & Hampel, A. (2005). Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads. Nature, 435(7038), 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson, D. P., Das, S., & Watts, A. B. (2006). Earthquake rupture stalled by a subducting fracture zone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5777), 1203–1205.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Thakkar, S., Nanaware-Kharade, N., Celikel, R., Peterson, E. C., & Varughese, K. I. (2014). Affinity improvement of a therapeutic antibody to methamphetamine and amphetamine through structure-based antibody engineering. Scientific Reports, 4, 3673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski, W. (2002). Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Lupacchini, R., & Angelini, A. (Eds.). (2014). The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Horvath, J., & Cameron, R. (2015). What’s a Makerspace (or Hackerspace)? In R. Cameron (Ed.), The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech (pp. 59–71). Apress.

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 Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 8). Longest Freshwater Migration Revealed As Catfish Swim Length Of Amazon And Back. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/longest-freshwater-migration-revealed-as-catfish-swim-length-of-amazon-and-back/

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. (2003). Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization (GAO-04-43). 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

Kreisel, M. (2015). Gabor frames for quasicrystals and K-theory [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Chivers, C. J., ERIN ARVEDLUND; C.J. Chivers reported from Moscow; Erin Arvedlund from Moscow, Buchalki;, & Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Domodedovo International Airport for this article. (2004, August 26). Investigators Seek Causes of Near-Simultaneous Jet Crashes in Russia That Killed 89. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lifschitz, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hetzel & Hampel, 2005; Lifschitz, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hetzel & Hampel, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Thakkar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Psychol. Psychother.
ISSN (print)	1476-0835
ISSN (online)	2044-8341
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology