How to format your references using the The Arts in Psychotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Arts in 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	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

Smith, J. (2011). A long shadow over Fukushima. Nature, 472(7341), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xia, Y., & Gong, J.-P. (2014). Impact of recombinant globular adiponectin on early warm ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat bile duct after liver transplantation. Scientific Reports, 4, 6426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tarchini, B., Duboule, D., & Kmita, M. (2006). Regulatory constraints in the evolution of the tetrapod limb anterior-posterior polarity. Nature, 443(7114), 985–988.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Thordarson, P., Bijsterveld, E. J. A., Rowan, A. E., & Nolte, R. J. M. (2003). Epoxidation of polybutadiene by a topologically linked catalyst. Nature, 424(6951), 915–918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meier, H. B., Marthinsen, J. E., & Gantenbein, P. A. (2012). Swiss Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Houdebine, L.-M., & Fan, J. (Eds.). (2009). Rabbit Biotechnology. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dayal, U., Vennelakanti, R., Sharma, R., Castellanos, M., Hao, M., & Patel, C. (2008). Collaborative Business Intelligence: Enabling Collaborative Decision Making in Enterprises. In R. Meersman & Z. Tari (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008: OTM 2008 Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 9-14, 2008, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 8–25). Springer.

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 The Arts in Psychotherapy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, September 5). Prepare Yourself For A Global Pistachio Shortage This Year. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prepare-yourself-for-a-global-pistachio-shortage-this-year/

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. (1997). Social Security Administration: Internet Access to Personal Earnings and Benefits Information (T-AIMD/HEHS-97-123). 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

Honnold, J. L. (2012). Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Williams, J. (2016, July 28). Five Americans Listed for Man Booker Prize. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2011; Xia & Gong, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xia & Gong, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Thordarson et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Arts in Psychotherapy
Abbreviation	Arts Psychother.
ISSN (print)	0197-4556
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Health Professions (miscellaneous)