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

Burrows A: A theoretical look at the direct detection of giant planets outside the Solar System. Nature 2005;433:261–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Small EM, Olson EN: Pervasive roles of microRNAs in cardiovascular biology. Nature 2011;469:336–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki T, Yamamoto Y, Koashi M: Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature 2014;509:475–478.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen M, Kumar D, Yi C-W, Goodman DW: The promotional effect of gold in catalysis by palladium-gold. Science 2005;310:291–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris SA: Food and Package Engineering, Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Cioffi N, Rai M, editors: Nano-Antimicrobials: Progress and Prospects, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Härdle WK, Simar L: Theory of the Multinormal; in Simar L (ed): Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2015, pp 183–199.

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: Scientists Kick-Start Brain Of Comatose Patient Using Ultrasound. 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 Pollution: EPA’s Efforts to Control Gasoline Vapors From Motor Vehicles, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Iniguez A: The Latino immigrant families and involvement with child welfare system: A grant proposal 2013;

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

Hollander S: Prep School Game Introduces Motivation Skills to Inner City Children. New York Times 2002;D5.

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