How to format your references using the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Counselling and Psychotherapy 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

Eggleston, C. M. (2008). Geochemistry. Toward new uses for hematite. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 184–185.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell, N., & Grayson, M. (2014). Index 2014 Global. Nature, 515(7526), S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Borgia, G., Coyle, B. J., & Keagy, J. (2012). Comment on “Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 292; author reply 292.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Grujić, J., Gracia-Lázaro, C., Milinski, M., Semmann, D., Traulsen, A., Cuesta, J. A., Moreno, Y., & Sánchez, A. (2014). A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments: conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance. Scientific Reports, 4, 4615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakshi, A. B., & Prasanna, V. K. (2007). Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Studený, M. (2005). On Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures (M. Jordan, J. Kleinberg, B. Schölkopf, F. P. Kelly, & I. Witten, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Meyer, M. R. (2016). The Cervical Vertebrae of KSD-VP-1/1. In Y. Haile-Selassie & D. F. Su (Eds.), The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis: New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1 (pp. 63–111). 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 Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 19). Young People And E-Cigarettes: What We Know So Far. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2009). Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds (GAO-09-174). 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

Kerr, A. B. (2012). Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2003, November 14). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Army Diet Found Lacking. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eggleston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell & Grayson, 2014; Eggleston, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Campbell & Grayson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Grujić et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
Abbreviation	Couns. Psychother. Res.
ISSN (print)	1473-3145
ISSN (online)	1746-1405
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology