How to format your references using the Verhaltenstherapie citation style

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

Brauer J: Establishing indicators for biodiversity. Science 2005;308:791–2; author reply 791-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freed AM, Lin J: Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer. Nature 2001;411:180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang H, Huang N, Zhu Y: Analysis of wind-blown sand movement over transverse dunes. Sci Rep 2014;4:7114.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fairén AG, Fernández-Remolar D, Dohm JM, Baker VR, Amils R: Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars. Nature 2004;431:423–426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson RC: The Hedge Fund Book, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Amara A, Ea T, Belleville M, editors: Emerging Technologies and Circuits, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Han X, Oliver CD, Ge J, Guo Q, Kou X: Managing Forest Stand Structures to Enhance Conservation of the Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica); in Stanturf J, Madsen P, Lamb D (eds): A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp 93–128.

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 Verhaltenstherapie.

Blog post

Andrew E: Seven New Genes Linked To Anxiety Disorders [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/seven-new-genes-linked-anxiety-disorders/

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: Next Generation Air Transportation System: Improved Risk Analysis Could Strengthen FAA’s Global Interoperability Efforts, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Cox ET: Prenatal cocaine: Effects on neonatal vocalizations, cue-induced maternal response, and brain development 2012;

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

Ruckelshaus WD, Reilly WK: Why Obama Is Right on Clean Energy. New York Times 2016;A27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Verhaltenstherapie
ISSN (print)	1016-6262
ISSN (online)	1423-0402
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology