How to format your references using the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice 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

Silk, J. B. (2014). Animal behaviour: The evolutionary roots of lethal conflict. Nature, 513(7518), 321–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dagan, T., & Martin, W. (2009). Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1651–1652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renata, H., Zhou, Q., & Baran, P. S. (2013). Strategic redox relay enables a scalable synthesis of ouabagenin, a bioactive cardenolide. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6115), 59–63.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Y., Guo, Y. R., Liu, K., Yin, Z., Liu, R., Xia, Y., Tan, L., Yang, P., Lee, J.-H., Li, X.-J., Hawke, D., Zheng, Y., Qian, X., Lyu, J., He, J., Xing, D., Tao, Y. J., & Lu, Z. (2017). KAT2A coupled with the α-KGDH complex acts as a histone H3 succinyltransferase. Nature, 552(7684), 273–277.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unhelkar, B. (2005). Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2.0 Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tunnicliffe, S. D., & Scheersoi, A. (Eds.). (2015). Natural History Dioramas: History, Construction and Educational Role. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bannister, J. M., Herbert, E. R., & Craft, C. B. (2015). Spatial Variability in Sedimentation, Carbon Sequestration, and Nutrient Accumulation in an Alluvial Floodplain Forest. In J. Vymazal (Ed.), The Role of Natural and Constructed Wetlands in Nutrient Cycling and Retention on the Landscape (pp. 41–55). Springer International Publishing.

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 Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 8). Incredible Video Shows Floating Fire Ant Raft In The South Carolina Floods. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/incredible-video-shows-floating-fire-ant-raft-south-carolina-floods/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs (AIMD-99-28). 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

Maffia, R. (2014). Image matters: Then and now in televisions’ depiction of African Americans [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1998, April 27). Springer’s Harvest. New York Times, D10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Silk, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dagan & Martin, 2009; Silk, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dagan & Martin, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research
Abbreviation	Consult. Psychol. J.
ISSN (print)	1065-9293
ISSN (online)	1939-0149
Scope