How to format your references using the Cognitive Therapy and Research citation style

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

Gewin, V. (2002). Academy proposes tighter crop monitoring. Nature, 415(6875), 948.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray, J., & King, D. (2012). Climate policy: Oil’s tipping point has passed. Nature, 481(7382), 433–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripati, A. K., Roberts, C. D., & Eagle, R. A. (2009). Coupling of CO2 and ice sheet stability over major climate transitions of the last 20 million years. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5958), 1394–1397.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Austin, M. J., Muskett, P., Kahn, K., Feys, B. J., Jones, J. D. G., & Parker, J. E. (2002). Regulatory role of SGT1 in early R gene-mediated plant defenses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2077–2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, F. J. (2011). Digital Filters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Robinson, L., Jr. (Ed.). (2015). Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Trobaugh, J. J., & Lowe, M. (2012). When Things Go Wrong. In M. Lowe (Ed.), Winning LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming (pp. 43–55). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Therapy and Research.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 21). Even Elephants In Remote Rainforests Are Being Slaughtered. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1991). Major ADP Systems: DOD Does Not Always Comply With Statutory Restriction on Obligations (No. IMTEC-91-16). Washington, DC: 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

Tovar, B. (2010). A drug and alcohol education and prevention program for Hispanic families: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2010, December 29). Truth Lurks In Spoof Of Singletary. New York Times, p. B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2002; Murray and King 2012).

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

Two authors: (Murray and King 2012)
Three or more authors: (Austin et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Therapy and Research
Abbreviation	Cognit. Ther. Res.
ISSN (print)	0147-5916
ISSN (online)	1573-2819
Scope	Clinical Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology