How to format your references using the Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Knight J. Drugs firms inflate research costs, watchdog says. Nature 2001;412:571.

A journal article with 2 authors

Segura-Totten M, Wilson KL. Virology. HIV--breaking the rules for nuclear entry. Science 2001;294:1016–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andrews MR, Mitra PP, deCarvalho R. Tripling the capacity of wireless communications using electromagnetic polarization. Nature 2001;409:316–318.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen YL, Chu J-H, Analytis JG et al. Massive Dirac fermion on the surface of a magnetically doped topological insulator. Science 2010;329:659–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau E, Adali T. Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013

An edited book

Azevedo JC, Perera AH, Pinto MA, eds. Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management. New York, NY: Springer, 2014

A chapter in an edited book

Blanchard P, Volchenkov D. Exploring Undirected Graphs by Random Walks. In: Volchenkov D, ed. Random Walks and Diffusions on Graphs and Databases: An Introduction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, 55–72.

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 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

Blog post

Andrew E. Explainer: What Philae Did In Its 60 hours on Comet 67P. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/space/explainer-what-philae-did-its-60-hours-comet-67p/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Effect of Personnel Reform on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Budget. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shakya S. Characterization of Interaction of Calmodulin and its Chimeras with Orai1. 2013.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Reaches Out To Vatican. New York Times. 2003;:A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 title	Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Abbreviation	Acta Psychiatr. Scand.
ISSN (print)	0001-690X
ISSN (online)	1600-0447
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health