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

Krammer, P. H. (2000). CD95’s deadly mission in the immune system. Nature, 407(6805), 789–795.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jing, J., & Wu, L.-A. (2013). Control of decoherence with no control. Scientific Reports, 3, 2746.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa, H., Aoki, T., & Furusawa, A. (2004). Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature, 431(7007), 430–433.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Del Punta, K., Leinders-Zufall, T., Rodriguez, I., Jukam, D., Wysocki, C. J., Ogawa, S., Zufall, F., & Mombaerts, P. (2002). Deficient pheromone responses in mice lacking a cluster of vomeronasal receptor genes. Nature, 419(6902), 70–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia, T., & Anzur, T. (2011). Power Performance. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Chokroverty, S., & Billiard, M. (Eds.). (2015). Sleep Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Development, Clinical Milestones, and Advances in Treatment (1st ed. 2015). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenz, H., & Döllner, J. (2010). High-Quality Non-planar Projections Using Real-Time Piecewise Perspective Projections. In A. Ranchordas, J. M. Pereira, H. J. Araújo, & J. M. R. S. Tavares (Eds.), Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 45–58). 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

Luntz, S. (2015, February 11). New Fungal Find Suggests Dinosaurs Did Drugs Too. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-did-drugs-fungal-find-suggests/

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. (2002). DOD Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers (GAO-03-19). 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

Warner, T. (2015). California Assembly Bill 2404 Fair Play in Community Sports Act compliance procedures manual [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

Sisario, B. (2017, June 12). Halsey Reaches the Top Of the Billboard Chart. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krammer, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jing & Wu, 2013; Krammer, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Jing & Wu, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Del Punta et al., 2002)

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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