How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 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

Lifschitz, V. (2011). John McCarthy (1927-2011). Nature, 480(7375), 40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pan, H., & Chen, B. (2014). Ultra-flexibility and unusual electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of waved graphenes and nanoribbons. Scientific reports, 4, 4198.

A journal article with 3 authors

Panda, S., Hogenesch, J. B., & Kay, S. A. (2002). Circadian rhythms from flies to human. Nature, 417(6886), 329–335.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bernard, C., Anderson, A., Becker, A., Poolos, N. P., Beck, H., & Johnston, D. (2004). Acquired dendritic channelopathy in temporal lobe epilepsy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5683), 532–535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edwards, J. (2004). Telecosmos. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Masurel, E., Jauhari, V., Watanabe, C., & Geenhuizen, M. (Eds.). (2009). Technological Innovation Across Nations: Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, W. (2015). Structural Engineering of Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) and Applications. In D. Losic & A. Santos (Eds.), Nanoporous Alumina: Fabrication, Structure, Properties and Applications (pp. 107–153). 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 Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). Engineers Shutdown Sexist STEM Stereotypes Using #ILookLikeAnEngineer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/excellent-engineers-shutdown-sexist-stem-stereotypes-using-ilooklikeanengineer/. 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. (2012). Telecommunications: FCC Has Reformed the High-Cost Program, but Oversight and Management Could be Improved (No. GAO-12-738). 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

Stahl-Kovell, D. W. (2014). Reimagining red power: Native American community, activism, and academics in postwar America (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

James, M. (2016, September 7). Five or Six Things I Didn’t Know About Brad Pitt. New York Times, p. M2128.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lifschitz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lifschitz 2011; Pan and Chen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pan and Chen 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bernard et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Psychother.
ISSN (print)	0022-0116
ISSN (online)	1573-3564
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology