How to format your references using the Spirituality in Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Spirituality in Clinical Practice. 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

Powell, K. (2012). Molecular oncology: The positive in the negative. Nature, 485(7400), S52-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas, D. N., & Dieckmann, G. S. (2002). Antarctic Sea ice--a habitat for extremophiles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 641–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depège, N., Bellafiore, S., & Rochaix, J.-D. (2003). Role of chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 in LHCII phosphorylation and state transition in Chlamydomonas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1572–1575.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bhunia, S. K., Saha, A., Maity, A. R., Ray, S. C., & Jana, N. R. (2013). Carbon nanoparticle-based fluorescent bioimaging probes. Scientific Reports, 3, 1473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S., & Bramham, J. (2012). Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Koskinen, U. (Ed.). (2016). Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Olorunnimbe, M. K., Viktor, H. L., & Paquet, E. (2016). Intelligent Adaptive Ensembles for Data Stream Mining: A High Return on Investment Approach. In M. Ceci, C. Loglisci, G. Manco, E. Masciari, & Z. W. Ras (Eds.), New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns: 4th International Workshop, NFMCP 2015, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 61–75). 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 Spirituality in Clinical Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 2). Mars Coming Into Opposition. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-coming-opposition/

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). National Science Foundation: Problems Found in Decision Process for Awarding Earthquake Center (RCED-87-146). 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

Newcomb, S. (2009). Reliability of the CVI range: A functional vision assessment for children with cortical visual impairment [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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. (2008, June 8). Start-Up Church Calls Diner Home. New York Times, WE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Powell, 2012; Thomas & Dieckmann, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Thomas & Dieckmann, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bhunia et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Spiritual. Clin. Pract. (Wash., DC)
ISSN (print)	2326-4500
ISSN (online)	2326-4519
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