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

Brody, H., 2012. Graphene. Nature 483, S29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleppner, D., Jackiw, R., 2000. One hundred years of quantum physics. Science 289, 893–898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qvarnström, A., Pärt, T., Sheldon, B.C., 2000. Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort. Nature 405, 344–347.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pruyne, D., Evangelista, M., Yang, C., Bi, E., Zigmond, S., Bretscher, A., Boone, C., 2002. Role of formins in actin assembly: nucleation and barbed-end association. Science 297, 612–615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daries, H., 2012. Nutrition for Sport and Exercise. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Esparza, J., 2008. Unfoldings: A Partial-Order Approach to Model Checking, Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science An EATCS Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dayal, U., Wilkinson, K., Simitsis, A., Castellanos, M., Paz, L., 2012. Optimization of Analytic Data Flows for Next Generation Business Intelligence Applications, in: Nambiar, R., Poess, M. (Eds.), Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization: Third TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, August 29-September 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 46–66.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Astronomers Finally See The Faint Swirling Halo Surrounding An Active Galaxy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-finally-see-the-faint-swirling-halo-surrounding-an-active-galaxy/ (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, 1981. Changes Needed in Administering Relief to Industries Hurt by Overseas Competition (No. ID-81-42). 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

Zaghdoun, E., 2009. Entre lettres et portraits: Madame Du Deffand, auteur? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Sports Take Him Away; Smells Bring Him Home. New York Times SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2012; Kleppner and Jackiw, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kleppner and Jackiw, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Pruyne et al., 2002)

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

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