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. Stein RS (2004): Geoscience. Tidal triggering caught in the act. Science 305: 1248–1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Morris SC, Caron J-B (2014): A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America. Nature 512: 419–422.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Maffione M, Morris A, Anderson MW (2013): Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past. Sci Rep 3: 2336.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Jancke D, Chavane F, Naaman S, Grinvald A (2004): Imaging cortical correlates of illusion in early visual cortex. Nature 428: 423–426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mallée R, Fuchs W, Eligehausen R (2013): Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

1. Feldman RM (2010): Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes ((C. Valdez-Flores, editor)). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Subramanian B (2015): Engineering Education in India: A Comprehensive Overview. In: Christensen SH, Didier C, Jamison A, Meganck M, Mitcham C, Newberry B, editors. International Perspectives on Engineering Education: Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp 105–123.

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 (2014, October 21): Newly Released Footage Shows A Wild Panda Masturbating. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-released-footage-shows-wild-panda-masturbating/

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 (1994): [Comments on EPA Authority to Exempt Clean-Fuel Vehicles from Transportation Control Measures]. 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. Mills CC (2017): Olfaction and Exhibition: Assessing the Impact of Scent in Museums on Exhibit Engagement, Learning and Empathy. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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. Stewart JB (2016, December 2): Berlusconi a Precedent for Trump. New York Times B1.

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