How to format your references using the Psychotherapy Research citation style

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

Balents, L. (2010). Spin liquids in frustrated magnets. Nature, 464(7286), 199–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Desai, S. A., & Miller, L. H. (2014). Malaria: Protein-export pathway illuminated. Nature, 511(7511), 541–542.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyers, M. A., McKittrick, J., & Chen, P.-Y. (2013). Structural biological materials: critical mechanics-materials connections. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6121), 773–779.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Rämet, M., Manfruelli, P., Pearson, A., Mathey-Prevot, B., & Ezekowitz, R. A. B. (2002). Functional genomic analysis of phagocytosis and identification of a Drosophila receptor for E. coli. Nature, 416(6881), 644–648.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kar, P. (2013). Doping in Conjugated Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Khan, N. A. (Ed.). (2006). Ethylene Action in Plants. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mosteller, F. (2010). The Safety of Anesthetics: The National Halothane Study. In S. E. Fienberg, D. C. Hoaglin, & J. M. Tanur (Eds.), The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller (pp. 69–88). 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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 16). A Nevada Woman Died From A Bug That Resisted 26 Antibiotics — Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Develop New Ones. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-nevada-woman-died-from-a-bug-that-resisted-26-antibiotics-heres-why-its-so-hard-to-develop-new-ones/

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. (2004). Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Processes Puts Implementation of HHS’ Financial System at Risk (GAO-04-1008). 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

Alderson, M. (2017). Procedural Justice and Police Encounters with Homeless Injecting Drug Users [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

Brantley, B. (2016, March 21). It’s Delectable, It’s Delirious, Or Maybe It’s Only Dopamine. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balents, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Balents, 2010; Desai & Miller, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Desai & Miller, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rämet et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychotherapy Research
Abbreviation	Psychother. Res.
ISSN (print)	1050-3307
ISSN (online)	1468-4381
Scope	Clinical Psychology