How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of 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

Rochmyaningsih, D., 2015. Don’t distort policy in the name of national pride. Nature 523, 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldblatt, C., Zahnle, K.J., 2011. Faint young Sun paradox remains. Nature 474, E3-4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler, S.J., Vickery, J.A., Norris, K., 2007. Farmland biodiversity and the footprint of agriculture. Science 315, 381–384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, Huanhuan, Ma, H., Hong, G., Sun, Hongliu, Wang, J., 2014. Survival improvement in patients with pancreatic cancer by decade: a period analysis of the SEER database, 1981-2010. Sci. Rep. 4, 6747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, G.W., 2003. Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zheng, K., 2016. Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks, 1st ed. 2016. ed, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Muroi, S., Kumamoto, T., 2016. Coseismic Tsunami Simulation Assuming the Displacement of High-Angle Branching Active Faults Identified on the Continental Slope Around the Japan Trench, in: Kamae, K. (Ed.), Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 55–63.

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 Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Incredible Preservation Of 125-Million-Year-Old Mammal Shows Soft Tissues And Hair [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1974. Survival of Higher Education in the Years Ahead (No. 094587). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson, K.L., 2017. Putting together the pieces of a social cognition deficit: A retrospective case study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Harwood, J., 2017. Why Trumpism May Not Endure. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rochmyaningsih, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Goldblatt and Zahnle, 2011; Rochmyaningsih, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Goldblatt and Zahnle, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Asian J. Psychiatr.
ISSN (print)	1876-2018
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology