How to format your references using the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sandrian MG. 2015. A European postdoc for the family. Science. 347(6219):346

A journal article with 2 authors

White RJ, Averner M. 2001. Humans in space. Nature. 409(6823):1115–18

A journal article with 3 authors

Ellis AS, Johnson TM, Bullen TD. 2002. Chromium isotopes and the fate of hexavalent chromium in the environment. Science. 295(5562):2060–62

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kee K, Angeles VT, Flores M, Nguyen HN, Reijo Pera RA. 2009. Human DAZL, DAZ and BOULE genes modulate primordial germ-cell and haploid gamete formation. Nature. 462(7270):222–25

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. 2014. Mechanical Shock. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Klieman A, ed. 2015. Great Powers and Geopolitics: International Affairs in a Rebalancing World. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhary N, Nagaraj R. 2012. Tau Fibrillogenesis. In Protein Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis in Cerebral and Systemic Amyloid Disease, ed. JR Harris, pp. 75–90. Dordrecht: 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 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Bizarre, Balloon-Shaped Animal Fossil Discovered. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2016. Unemployment Insurance: Various Factors Affect Head Start and Other Early Childhood Teachers’ Eligibility for Benefits. GAO-17-34, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dixon LK. 2009. Tracing anthropogenic wastes: Detection of fluorescent optical brighteners in a gradient of natural organic matter fluorescence. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of South Florida

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

Burghardt LF. 2006. Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times, June 4, , p. 14CN6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandrian 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sandrian 2015; White & Averner 2001).

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

Two authors: (White & Averner 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kee et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1548-5943
ISSN (online)	1548-5951
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology