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

Zwier, T. S. (2009). Chemistry. Squeezing the water out of HCl(aq). Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1522–1523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rabosky, D. L., & Sorhannus, U. (2009). Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic. Nature, 457(7226), 183–186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wahl, E. R., Ritson, D. M., & Ammann, C. M. (2006). Comment on “Reconstructing past climate from noisy data.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 529; author reply 529.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Giacco, F., Ciamarra, M. P., Saggese, L., de Arcangelis, L., & Lippiello, E. (2014). Non-monotonic dependence of the friction coefficient on heterogeneous stiffness. Scientific Reports, 4, 6772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan, S. Y. (2012). Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Wieser, G., & Tausz, M. (Eds.). (2007). Trees at their Upper Limit: Treelife Limitation at the Alpine Timberline (Vol. 5). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

de Winter, M. (2014). Subjectificating Socialisation for the Common Good: The Case for a Democratic Offensive in Upbringing and Education. In G. Biesta, M. De Bie, & D. Wildemeersch (Eds.), Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere (pp. 55–70). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 28). We Found Only One-Third Of Published Psychology Research Is Reliable – Now What? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/we-found-only-one-third-published-psychology-research-reliable-now-what/

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. (1998). DOD, GSA, and NASA: Federal Acquisition Regulation--Reform of Affirmative Action in Federal Procurement (OGC-98-64). 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

Stevens, J. W. (2008). Perception of counselor ethical behavior: A quantitative look at dual relationships in Maine [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

McNAMARA, J. (2017, September 8). Falling Through Time. New York Times, BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwier, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rabosky & Sorhannus, 2009; Zwier, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rabosky & Sorhannus, 2009)
Three authors: (Wahl et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Giacco et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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