How to format your references using the Archives of General Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of General 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:

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

Adam D. British archaeology boost may uncover old enthusiasm. Nature. 2001;413(6854):338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Misra S, Froelich PN. Lithium isotope history of Cenozoic seawater: changes in silicate weathering and reverse weathering. Science. 2012;335(6070):818-823.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishikawa H, Ma Z, Barber GN. STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature. 2009;461(7265):788-792.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Macpherson LJ, Dubin AE, Evans MJ, et al. Noxious compounds activate TRPA1 ion channels through covalent modification of cysteines. Nature. 2007;445(7127):541-545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Atherton J, Gil F, Center for Chemical Process Safety. Incidents That Define Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Schanz T, ed. Theoretical and Numerical Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. Vol 113. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

AbuRahma AF. Overview of Various Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Techniques. In: AbuRahma AF, Bergan JJ, eds. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy. Springer; 2007:50-59.

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 Archives of General Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. MAVEN Spacecraft Takes First Deep Dip. IFLScience. February 21, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/maven-spacecraft-takes-first-deep-dip/

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. Aviation Finance: Observations on Potential FAA Funding Options. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bradford J. Commutative Endomorphism Rings of Simple Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Schwartz J. Victor Lownes, 88, Rake and Colleague of Hefner. New York Times. January 13, 2017:B13.

In-text citations

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

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	Archives of General Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Arch. Gen. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0003-990X
ISSN (online)	1538-3636
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health