How to format your references using the Biological Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological 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

1. Dalton R (2003): Arizona institute names leader. Nature 423: 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Portegies Zwart SF, van den Heuvel EPJ (2007): A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova. Nature 450: 388–389.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mitrovica JX, Gomez N, Clark PU (2009): The sea-level fingerprint of West Antarctic collapse. Science 323: 753.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Li H, Yang B, Xing K, Yuan N, Wang B, Chen Z, et al. (2014): A preliminary study of the relationship between breast cancer metastasis and loss of heterozygosity by using exome sequencing. Sci Rep 4: 5460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maidl B, Herrenknecht M, Maidl U, Wehrmeyer G (2011): Maschineller Tunnelbau Im Schildvortrieb. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

1. Percec V (Ed.) (2013): Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 Years after the Staudinger Nobel Prize II, vol. 262. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kutnick P, Blatchford P (2014): Improving the Effectiveness of Collaborative Group Work at KS2: Effects on Pupil Attainment, Classroom Behaviour and Attitudes. In: Blatchford P, editor. Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp 103–127.

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 Biological Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E (2015, September 9): Dwarf Galaxy Suddenly Produces Dazzling Star Clusters. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/rags-riches-galaxy-produces-glittering-stars/

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

1. Government Accountability Office (2001): Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Charles J-G (2017): African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University.

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

1. Greenhouse L (2006, April 27): Court Puts Teeth in “Notice” Needed to Seize Property. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (2,4,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Biol. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0006-3223
ISSN (online)	1873-2402
Scope	Biological Psychiatry