How to format your references using the Cognitive and Behavioral Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cognitive and Behavioral 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	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 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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Recruiters and industry. Building an intern programme. Nature, 431(7006), 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly, P.-B., & Rip, A. (2007). A timely harvest. Nature, 450(7167), 174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vokrouhlický, D., Nesvorný, D., & Bottke, W. F. (2003). The vector alignments of asteroid spins by thermal torques. Nature, 425(6954), 147–151.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pham, N. H., Ohya, S., Tanaka, M., Barnes, S. E., & Maekawa, S. (2009). Electromotive force and huge magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions. Nature, 458(7237), 489–492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merritt, C. (2015). Process Steam Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vayenas, C. G. (Ed.). (2011). Interfacial Phenomena in Electrocatalysis (Vol. 51). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bongiovanni, G., & Valentini, C. (2009). Reciprocity, Balancing and Proportionality Rawls and Habermas on Moral and Political Reasonableness. In G. Bongiovanni, G. Sartor, & C. Valentini (Eds.), Reasonableness and Law (pp. 79–107). 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 Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 6). The Smell Of Rain: How CSIRO Invented A New Word. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/smell-rain-how-csiro-invented-new-word/

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. (1994). Treasury Electronic Signature Concept (AIMD-94-167R). 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

Carpenter, D. M. (2009). Understanding the effect of conflicting information on medication adherence for vasculitis patients [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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. (2009, November 15). In Assessing Agassi, The Title Tells It All. New York Times, SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Joly & Rip, 2007; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Joly & Rip, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pham et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Abbreviation	Cogn. Behav. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1077-7229
Scope	Clinical Psychology