How to format your references using the Current Psychiatry Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Psychiatry Reports. 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

1. Desplan C. Time to pick the fly’s brain. Nature. 2007;450:173.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wolf D, Goff SP. Embryonic stem cells use ZFP809 to silence retroviral DNAs. Nature. 2009;458:1201–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chalasani R, Gupta A, Vasudevan S. Engineering new layered solids from exfoliated inorganics: a periodically alternating hydrotalcite-montmorillonite layered hybrid. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3498.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Parikh N, Youssef M, Swarup S, Eubank S. Modeling the effect of transient populations on epidemics in Washington DC. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Davies D. Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Hansen TW, Wagner JB, editors. Controlled Atmosphere Transmission Electron Microscopy: Principles and Practice. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ehara T. Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States. In: Welch A, editor. The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 59–69.

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 Current Psychiatry Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. 4 Ways You Can Observe Relativity In Everyday Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/4-examples-relativity-everyday-life/

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. Space Shuttle: Status of Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Nov. Report No.: NSIAD-93-26.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cox AM. Functional Gain and Change Mechanisms in Post-Production Complex Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Kelly M. And on Kohl’s Agenda (or Was It Menu?). New York Times. 1993 Mar 27;14.

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	Current Psychiatry Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Psychiatry Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3812
ISSN (online)	1535-1645
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health