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

Hilton DR. Geochemistry. The leaking mantle. Science 2007;318:1389–1390.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shine KP, Sturges WT. Atmospheric science. CO2 is not the only gas. Science 2007;315:1804–1805.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khudiyev T, Huseyinoglu E, Bayindir M. Non-resonant Mie scattering: emergent optical properties of core-shell polymer nanowires. Sci Rep 2014;4:4607.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Johnson J, Canning J, Kaneko T, Pru JK, Tilly JL. Germline stem cells and follicular renewal in the postnatal mammalian ovary. Nature 2004;428:145–150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos EC Jr, Cabral da Silva ER. ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014

An edited book

Tartaglia R, Vannucci A, eds. Prevenire gli eventi avversi nella pratica clinica. Milano: Springer, 2013

A chapter in an edited book

Gomez JC, Wang Q, Doerschuk CM. Neutrophils in Acute Bacterial Pneumonia. In: Prince A, ed. Mucosal Immunology of Acute Bacterial Pneumonia. New York, NY: Springer, 2013, 83–124.

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

Felton J. Here’s How To Protect Your Privacy Online. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-to-protect-your-privacy-online/ (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. National Airspace System: Questions Concerning FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Daczo Z. Wage inequality and the gender wage gap: Are American women swimming upstream? 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

Kishkovsky S. The Tortured Voice of Russia’s Lost Generation. New York Times. 2007;:A4.

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