How to format your references using the Academic Psychiatry citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
1. Pollock TM. Materials science. Weight loss with magnesium alloys. Science. 2010;328:986–7.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Poage MA, Chamberlain CP. Geochemistry. Rising mountain ranges. Science. 2006;311:478–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Stebe KJ, Lewandowski E, Ghosh M. Materials science. Oriented assembly of metamaterials. Science. 2009;325:159–60.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Reichle R, Leibfried D, Knill E, Britton J, Blakestad RB, Jost JD, et al. Experimental purification of two-atom entanglement. Nature. 2006;443:838–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Kompare D. CSI. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.
An edited book
1. Rowley CK. Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. Schneider FG, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Fujiwara T. Cesium Uptake in Rice: Possible Transporter, Distribution, and Variation. In: Nakanishi TM, Tanoi K, editors. Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2013. p. 29–35.

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 Academic Psychiatry.

Blog post
1. Luntz S. Physicists Have A New Theory On How The Egyptians Built The Pyramids [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/physicists-have-new-theory-how-egyptians-built-pyramids/

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
1. Government Accountability Office. Employment Security Operations--The Impact of a Computerized Job Bank in Baltimore, Maryland. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Apr. Report No.: B-133182.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Darvish H. Smart Power Grid Synchronization with Nonlinear Estimation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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
1. Gustines GG. Superheroes for the Stockings. New York Times. 2011 Nov 25;C36.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal titleAcademic Psychiatry
AbbreviationAcad. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)1042-9670
ISSN (online)1545-7230
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Psychiatry and Mental health
Education

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