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

Cocroft, R., 2009. An ecologist marvels at animals that learn to eavesdrop. Nature 460, 439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Møller-Jensen, J., Gerdes, K., 2004. Microbiology. Dynamic instability of a bacterial engine. Science 306, 987–989.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alkire, M.T., Hudetz, A.G., Tononi, G., 2008. Consciousness and anesthesia. Science 322, 876–880.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dar, M.H., de Janvry, A., Emerick, K., Raitzer, D., Sadoulet, E., 2013. Flood-tolerant rice reduces yield variability and raises expected yield, differentially benefitting socially disadvantaged groups. Sci. Rep. 3, 3315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner, D.J., 2016. The ETF Handbook. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Oñate, E., Kröplin, B. (Eds.), 2005. Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Voronovich, A.G., 2007. Rayleigh Hypothesis, in: Maradudin, A.A. (Ed.), Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness, Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 93–105.

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

Evans, K., 2016. 22 Signs You Might Be A Narcissist [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/22-signs-you-might-be-a-narcissist/ (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, 2016. Data Center Consolidation: Agencies Making Progress, but Planned Savings Goals Need to Be Established [Reissued on March 4, 2016] (No. GAO-16-323). 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

Wells, R.E., 2008. Managers’ affective expressions as determinants of employee responses to change: Valence, inappropriateness and authenticity (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. A Man on a Mission, and Then Another. New York Times AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cocroft, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cocroft, 2009; Møller-Jensen and Gerdes, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Møller-Jensen and Gerdes, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dar et al., 2013)

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