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. Kleiner K (2007): Civil aviation faces green challenge. Nature 448: 120–121.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sachs J, Malaney P (2002): The economic and social burden of malaria. Nature 415: 680–685.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. LaRiviere FJ, Wolfson AD, Uhlenbeck OC (2001): Uniform binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to elongation factor Tu by thermodynamic compensation. Science 294: 165–168.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Yang Y, Herrera C, Eagle N, González MC (2014): Limits of predictability in commuting flows in the absence of data for calibration. Sci Rep 4: 5662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Walter RJ (1998): Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

1. Perner P (Ed.) (2008): Advances in Data Mining. Medical Applications, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Theoretical Aspects: 8th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 16-18, 2008 Proceedings, vol. 5077. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Heinegård D (2007): Cartilage Matrix Destruction. In: Bronner F, Farach-Carson MC, editors. Bone and Osteoarthritis. London: Springer, pp 81–95.

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. Andrews R (2017, May 16): This 110-Million-Year-Old Armored Dinosaur Was Turned To Stone By A Geological Medusa. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/110millionyearold-armored-dinosaur-turned-stone-geological-medusa/

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 (2010): Technology Assessment: Explosives Detection Technologies to Protect Passenger Rail. 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. Truong T (2012): Microfluidics-Based System for High-Throughput Analysis of Nitrite in Harbor Water. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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. Caramanica J (2017, April 26): Sometimes Heartbreak Is a Blessing. New York Times C2.

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