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

Borovsky JE. Geophysics. Feedback of the magnetosphere. Science 2014;343:1086–1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veigel C, Schmidt CF. Biochemistry. Friction in motor proteins. Science 2009;325:826–827.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heil M, Rattke J, Boland W. Postsecretory hydrolysis of nectar sucrose and specialization in ant/plant mutualism. Science 2005;308:560–563.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scannell DR, Byrne KP, Gordon JL, Wong S, Wolfe KH. Multiple rounds of speciation associated with reciprocal gene loss in polyploid yeasts. Nature 2006;440:341–345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon P, Brousse T, Favier F. Supercapacitors Based on Carbon or Pseudocapacitive Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017

An edited book

Jabłoński R, Brezina T, eds. Advanced Mechatronics Solutions. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016

A chapter in an edited book

Barsky SH, Robertson FM. Pathology: Histomorphometrical Features of IBC – Angiogenesis, Lymphangiogenesis, and Tumor Emboli. In: Ueno NT, Cristofanilli M, eds. Inflammatory Breast Cancer: An Update. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, 27–51.

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

Andrews R. Military Officials Say Climate Change Presents ‘Significant And Direct Risks To US Homeland’. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/military-officials-climate-change-significant-direct-risks-us-homeland/ (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. Electronic Government: Better Information Needed on Agencies’ Implementation of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Atchison D. An Examination of Educational Equity: The Impact of Accountability and Finance Reform Policies. 2017.

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

Walsh MW. Next Chicago School Crisis: Pension Fund. New York Times. 2012;:A1.

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

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