How to format your references using the Spirituality in Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Spirituality in Clinical 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

Boebinger, G. S. (2009). Physics. An abnormal normal state. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 590–591.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunham, L. R., & Hayden, M. R. (2012). Medicine. Whole-genome sequencing: the new standard of care? Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1112–1113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jansen, V. A. A., Mashanova, A., & Petrovskii, S. (2012). Comment on “Lévy walks evolve through interaction between movement and environmental complexity.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Büntgen, U., Tegel, W., Nicolussi, K., McCormick, M., Frank, D., Trouet, V., Kaplan, J. O., Herzig, F., Heussner, K.-U., Wanner, H., Luterbacher, J., & Esper, J. (2011). 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6017), 578–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pevsner, J. (2005). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Campardo, G., Tiziani, F., & Iaculo, M. (Eds.). (2011). Memory Mass Storage. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bakry, S. H., & Al-Ghamdi, A. (2008). A Framework for the Knowledge Society Ecosystem: A Tool for Development. In M. D. Lytras, J. M. Carroll, E. Damiani, R. D. Tennyson, D. Avison, G. Vossen, & P. Ordonez De Pablos (Eds.), The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 32–44). 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 Spirituality in Clinical Practice.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 22). Supervolcano Magma Chambers Recharge In Just 500 Years. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supervolcano-magma-chambers-recharge-just-500-years/

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. (1994). Federal Motor Vehicles: Private and State Practices Can Improve Fleet Management (GGD-95-18). 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

Hinchey, B. A. (2010). Punishing the Penitent: Disproportionate Fines in Recent FCPA Enforcements and Suggested Improvements [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Barron, J. (2017, October 8). A Cathedral-Like Home For a Church’s Peacocks. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boebinger, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Boebinger, 2009; Brunham & Hayden, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Brunham & Hayden, 2012)
Three authors: (Jansen et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Büntgen et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Spiritual. Clin. Pract. (Wash., DC)
ISSN (print)	2326-4500
ISSN (online)	2326-4519
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