How to format your references using the Comprehensive Psychiatry citation style

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

Carlson RW. Planetary science: A new recipe for Earth formation. Nature 2015;520:299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ahn S, Joyner AL. In vivo analysis of quiescent adult neural stem cells responding to Sonic hedgehog. Nature 2005;437:894–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yoon S-J, Yi SK, Lee Y-W. Explaining the color distributions of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies. Science 2006;311:1129–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tritten L, Keiser J, Godejohann M, Utzinger J, Vargas M, Beckonert O, et al. Metabolic profiling framework for discovery of candidate diagnostic markers of malaria. Sci Rep 2013;3:2769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Means RS. Green Building: Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Hornberger NH, editor. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Riviello D, Benco S, Crespi FL, Ghittino A, Garello R, Perotti A. Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive TV White-Spaces Systems. In: Di Benedetto M-G, Bader F, editors. Cognitive Communication and Cooperative HetNet Coexistence: Selected Advances on Spectrum Sensing, Learning, and Security Approaches, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 71–90.

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 Comprehensive Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. April Smashes Temperature Records, Putting 2016 On Track For Hottest Year. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/april-smashed-temperature-records-putting-2016-track-hottest-year/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Payroll Activities, Atlanta Postal Data Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Barnett J. Understanding gender differences in teachers’ level of insight as it relates to ADHD. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Williams J. Leonard Cohen Book Scheduled for 2018. New York Times 2017:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Comprehensive Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Compr. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0010-440X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology