How to format your references using the Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Culture, Medicine, and 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	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

Smol, John P. 2012 Climate Change: A planet in flux. Nature 483(7387): S12-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lankau, Richard A., and Sharon Y. Strauss 2007 Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5844): 1561–1563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kingon, A. I., J. P. Maria, and S. K. Streiffer 2000 Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices. Nature 406(6799): 1032–1038.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mejlgaard, Niels, Richard Woolley, Carter Bloch, Susanne Bührer, Erich Griessler, Angela Jäger, Ralf Lindner, et al. 2018 Europe’s plans for responsible science. Science (New York, N.Y.) 361(6404): 761–762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massotte, Pierre, and Patrick Corsi 2017 Smart Decisions in Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meier, G. E. A., K. R. Sreenivasan, and H-J Heinemann, eds. 2006 IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at DLR-Göttingen, Germany, August 12-14, 2004. Vol. 129. Solid mechanics and its applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Henkel, Malte, and Michel Pleimling 2010 Local Scale-invariance I: z = 2. In Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium. Michel Pleimling, ed., pp. 221–290. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen 2016 Extinct Kitten-Sized Marsupial Lion Named After David Attenborough. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved. October 30, 2018. from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newlydiscovered-extinct-kittensized-marsupial-lion-named-after-david-attenborough/.

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 1985 The Department of Education’s Actions To Collect Defaulted Student Loans. 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

Sahib, Sonny S. 2010 Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Ember, Sydney, and Michael M. Grynbaum 2017 How a Retraction Humbled CNN. New York Times, September 5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smol 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Smol 2012; Lankau and Strauss 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lankau and Strauss 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mejlgaard et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Cult. Med. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0165-005X
ISSN (online)	1573-076X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Health(social science) Anthropology