How to format your references using the Contemporary Family Therapy citation style

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

Kelley, K. A. (2014). Geophysics. Inside Earth runs hot and cold. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6179), 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Resing, J. A., & Barrett, P. M. (2014). Ocean chemistry: Fingerprints of a trace nutrient. Nature, 511(7508), 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neutel, A.-M., Heesterbeek, J. A. P., & De Ruiter, P. C. (2002). Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1120–1123.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Men, Z., Fang, W., Li, D., Li, Z., & Sun, C. (2014). Raman spectra from symmetric hydrogen bonds in water by high-intensity laser-induced breakdown. Scientific reports, 4, 4606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rankin, J. (2008). Effects of Antenatal Exercise on Psychological Well-Being, Pregnancy and Birth Outcome. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Whurr Publishers Ltd.

An edited book

Appice, A., Rodrigues, P. P., Santos Costa, V., Soares, C., Gama, J., & Jorge, A. (Eds.). (2015). Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9284). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Khattab, A., Perkins, D., & Bayoumi, M. (2013). Rate-Adaptive Probabilistic Approach for Opportunistic Spectrum Access. In D. Perkins & M. Bayoumi (Eds.), Cognitive Radio Networks: From Theory to Practice (pp. 41–47). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Contemporary Family Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 13). Could A Smartphone App Help Stop The Next Polio Outbreak In Pakistan? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-smartphone-app-help-stop-next-polio-outbreak-pakistan/. 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. (1987). U.S. Science and Engineering Base: A Synthesis of Concerns About Budget and Policy Development (No. RCED-87-65). 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

Wonnacott, C. J. (2017). Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Biillard, M. (2010, May 6). Listen Up, but Good. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kelley 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kelley 2014; Resing and Barrett 2014).

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

Two authors: (Resing and Barrett 2014)
Three or more authors: (Men et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Family Therapy
Abbreviation	Contemp. Fam. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0892-2764
ISSN (online)	1573-3335
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cultural Studies General Psychology