How to format your references using the Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychotherapy. 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

Kovacs, J. A. (2003). Biochemistry. How iron activates O2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5609), 1024–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawatani, Y., & Hamilton, K. (2013). Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling. Nature, 497(7450), 478–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grey, M., Haggart, J. W., & Smith, P. L. (2008). Variation in evolutionary patterns across the geographic range of a fossil bivalve. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5905), 1238–1241.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clantin, B., Delattre, A.-S., Rucktooa, P., Saint, N., Méli, A. C., Locht, C., Jacob-Dubuisson, F., & Villeret, V. (2007). Structure of the membrane protein FhaC: a member of the Omp85-TpsB transporter superfamily. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5840), 957–961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tatham, M., & Morton, K. (2006). Developments in Speech Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lowe, G. F., & Brown, C. (Eds.). (2016). Managing Media Firms and Industries: What’s So Special About Media Management? (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Takei, H., & Bhattacharjee, M. B. (2014). Pituitary Gland. In Q. “jim” Zhai (Ed.), Frozen Section Library: Endocrine Organs (pp. 207–231). 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 Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, April 28). Farmer Finds Enormous Prehistoric Sea Monster Jaw. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/most-intact-kronosaurus-jaw-located/

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. (1996). Aviation Acquisition: A Comprehensive Strategy Is Needed for Cultural Change at FAA (RCED-96-159). 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

McCain, A. K. (2015). Influence of market setting and time of purchase on counts of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and coliform and prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria in beef, pork, and chicken in Vietnam [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, March 26). Court Hears Arguments On Americans Held in Iraq. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kovacs, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kawatani & Hamilton, 2013; Kovacs, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kawatani & Hamilton, 2013)
Three authors: (Grey et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Clantin et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychotherapy
Abbreviation	Psychotherapy (Chic.)
ISSN (print)	0033-3204
ISSN (online)	1939-1536
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology