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

Stern, P. (2013). The heavily connected brain. Connection, connection, connection... Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6158), 577.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perry, B., & Sones, K. (2007). Science for development. Poverty reduction through animal health. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 333–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, H. H., Woo, K., & Ahn, J.-P. (2013). Core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles robustly fixed on the outermost surface of magnetic silica microspheres. Scientific Reports, 3, 1497.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hansen, S. K., Rainey, P. B., Haagensen, J. A. J., & Molin, S. (2007). Evolution of species interactions in a biofilm community. Nature, 445(7127), 533–536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher, C., & Böhm, S. (2005). Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Liu, D., Zhang, H., Polycarpou, M., Alippi, C., & He, H. (Eds.). (2011). Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, May 29–June 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 6675). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobsa, A. (2007). Generic User Modeling Systems. In P. Brusilovsky, A. Kobsa, & W. Nejdl (Eds.), The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization (pp. 136–154). 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 Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, September 30). Plastic-Eating Mealworms Could Help Reduce Landfill Waste. 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. (1993). Compensatory Education: Additional Funds Help More Private School Students Receive Chapter 1 Services (HRD-93-65). 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

Tabone, B. (2013). Knowledge and awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among female collegiate athletes at California State University, Long Beach [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

Kelly, M. (1993, April 18). Clinton Campaign Avoided Workers’ Taxes. New York Times, 127.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Perry & Sones, 2007; Stern, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Perry & Sones, 2007)
Three authors: (Park et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hansen et al., 2007)

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