How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (BJP). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Sheps JA. Biochemistry. Through a mirror, differently. Science. 2009;323:1679–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhat SG, Kumar PSA. Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5588.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCauley E, Nelson WA, Nisbet RM. Small-amplitude cycles emerge from stage-structured interactions in Daphnia-algal systems. Nature. 2008;455:1240–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cederstrom B, Cahn RN, Danielsson M, Lundqvist M, Nygren DR. Focusing hard X-rays with old LPs. Nature. 2000;404:951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson N, Hall G, Fawcett W. How to Survive in Anaesthesia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Altenbach H, Eremeyev VA, editors. Shell-like Structures: Non-classical Theories and Applications. Vol. 15. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Kok J, Van Bavel J. Stemming the tide. Denomination and religiousness in the Dutch fertility transition, 1845–1945. In: Derosas R, van Poppel F, editors. Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 83–105.

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 Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Herd Immunity And Measles: Why We Should Aim For 100% Vaccination Coverage. IFLScience. 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/herd-immunity-and-measles-why-we-should-aim-100-vaccination-coverage/ Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Tax Policy: Historical Tax Treatment of INTELSAT and Current Tax Rules for Satellite Corporations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shurts C. Superstructure. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Chira S. When a House Falls in the Forest. New York Times. 2013:D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	1516-4446
ISSN (online)	1809-452X
Scope