How to format your references using the Verhaltenstherapie citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Verhaltenstherapie. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wadman M: Treatment: When less is more. Nature 2015;528:S126-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Odorizzi PM, Wherry EJ: Immunology. An interferon paradox. Science 2013;340:155–156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden EJ, Ferrada E, Wagner A: Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme. Nature 2011;474:92–95.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Madec R, Devincre B, Kubin L, Hoc T, Rodney D: The role of collinear interaction in dislocation-induced hardening. Science 2003;301:1879–1882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant FM, Anders E: A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

Shindé SL, Goela JS, editors: High Thermal Conductivity Materials, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Becucci S: New Players in an Old Game: The Sex Market in Italy; in Siegel D, Nelen H (eds): Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies. New York, NY, Springer, 2008, pp 57–69.

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 Verhaltenstherapie.

Blog post

Taub B: New Study May Reveal How The Galapagos Islands Became So Biodiverse. IFLScience 2016;

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: Air Traffic Control: Complete and Enforced Architecture Needed for FAA Systems Modernization, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Klochko K: An empirical re-evaluation of the boron isotope/pH proxy in marine carbonates 2009;

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

Estrin J: Stanley Greene, Whose Camera Captured the Brutality of War, Dies at 68. New York Times 2017;B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Verhaltenstherapie
ISSN (print)	1016-6262
ISSN (online)	1423-0402
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology