Thursday, October 16, 2008

Reference - Title capitalization

The title for a book chapter is "Spiritually Oriented Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy." Do I cite this as:

1) Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

2) Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented Cognitive-behavioral Therapy.

3) Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented Cognitive-Behavioral therapy.

4) Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented cognitive-behavioral therapy.


Thank you!

2 comments:

ann said...

judging off of Dr. Tan's vitae for how he treats the phrase "cognitive-behavioral therapy" himself, i would say numero 4:

4) Tan, S. Y., & Johnson, W. B. (2005). Spiritually oriented cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Mari said...

CBT is one of those odd ones--is it a proper noun or not? The argument could clearly be made in either direction, and thus Ann's advice of going to the source is a good one.

Also, I assume that this goes without saying, but just to be certain...you are following examples 34-37 on pp. 252-254 of the APA Publication Manual in formatting the remainder of this reference, right?

Remember that the Publication Manual is the final authority on formatting, no matter what a published reference looks like or how someone posted it on a website or how it is in a vita. There is no substitute for the Publication Manual, and learning it now will save you much time and effort later. Really.