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

Briggs DEG: Obituary: Harry Whittington (1916-2010). Nature 2010;466:706.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koester HJ, Johnston D: Target cell-dependent normalization of transmitter release at neocortical synapses. Science 2005;308:863–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu G-Z, Radtke G, Botton GA: Bonding and structure of a reconstructed (001) surface of SrTiO3 from TEM. Nature 2012;490:384–387.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bandyopadhyay S, Mehta M, Kuo D, Sung M-K, Chuang R, Jaehnig EJ, et al.: Rewiring of genetic networks in response to DNA damage. Science 2010;330:1385–1389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bagrintseva KI: Carbonate Reservoir Rocks, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

Wuerthner G, Crist E, Butler T, editors: Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation, Washington, DC, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Masala C: Political Environment as a Factor of Risk; in Essig M, Hülsmann M, Kern E-M, Klein-Schmeink S (eds): Supply Chain Safety Management: Security and Robustness in Logistics. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2013, pp 101–108.

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

Davis J: For Male Chimpanzees, It Pays To Have Friends In High Places. 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: Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clyde KM: Instructors’ Perceptions of the National Association of Schools of Music Influence on the Development of Undergraduate Applied Percussion Curricula 2012;

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

Vecsey G: A New Owner Makes A Winning Impression. New York Times 2010;B20.

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