How to format your references using the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ciotti, L. (2009). Galaxy formation: Anatomy of elliptical galaxies. Nature, 460(7253), 333–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steltzer, H., & Post, E. (2009). Ecology. Seasons and life cycles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5929), 886–887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedenheft, B., Sternberg, S. H., & Doudna, J. A. (2012). RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea. Nature, 482(7385), 331–338.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Achermann, M., Petruska, M. A., Kos, S., Smith, D. L., Koleske, D. D., & Klimov, V. I. (2004). Energy-transfer pumping of semiconductor nanocrystals using an epitaxial quantum well. Nature, 429(6992), 642–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mcphee, J. E. (2014). Mastering Strategic Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nardi, A. E., & Freire, R. C. R. (Eds.). (2016). Panic Disorder: Neurobiological and Treatment Aspects. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Knapp, C. E. (2016). Experiential Education. In H. Smith & J. C. McDermott (Eds.), The Foxfire Approach: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond (pp. 31–43). SensePublishers.

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 Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 7). What Caused Oklahoma’s Powerful 5.6M Earthquake? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-caused-oklahomas-powerful-56m-earthquake/

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. (2006). Freight Railroads: Highlights of GAO Report on Freight Rail Industry Performance, Competition, and Capacity (GAO-07-207R). 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

Nagarajah, B. A. (2017). The influence of professional training and personal factors on technostress: A correlational study [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Kelly, C. (2006, August 18). Shore Enclave Feels The Breezes of Change. New York Times, F6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciotti, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ciotti, 2009; Steltzer & Post, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Steltzer & Post, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Achermann et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Consult. Clin. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-006X
ISSN (online)	1939-2117
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology