How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 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

Brooks, B. A. (2012). Geophysics. Seeing is believing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conover, D. O., & Munch, S. B. (2002). Sustaining fisheries yields over evolutionary time scales. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5578), 94–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merlin, C., Gegear, R. J., & Reppert, S. M. (2009). Antennal circadian clocks coordinate sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5948), 1700–1704.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thier, P., Dicke, P. W., Haas, R., & Barash, S. (2000). Encoding of movement time by populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Nature, 405(6782), 72–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glasgow, L. A. (2014). Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bonacker, T., & Safferling, C. (Eds.). (2013). Victims of International Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Discourse. The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Haltinner, K. (2016). Gender Bending in the Classroom: Teaching Gender Inequity Without Reifying Gender Essentialism and Heteronormativity. In K. Haltinner & R. Pilgeram (Eds.), Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America (pp. 45–51). Cham: 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 Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, May 25). How Microbes Make Methane. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-microbes-make-methane/. 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. (1998). Department of the Interior: Year 2000 Computing Crisis Presents Risk of Disruption to Key Operations (No. T-AIMD-98-149). 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

Fengler, K. (2017). Everyday Aesthetics and the Environmental Significance of Everyday Aesthetics: A High School Art Unit of Instruction Promoting Positive Attitudinal Changes towards the Environment (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

Benanav, M. (2017, August 28). A Way of Life, Fading Away. New York Times, p. TR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brooks 2012; Conover and Munch 2002).

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

Two authors: (Conover and Munch 2002)
Three or more authors: (Thier et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Psychol. Med. Settings
ISSN (print)	1068-9583
ISSN (online)	1573-3572
Scope	Clinical Psychology