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. Clawson GA. Cancer. Fusion for moving. Science. 2013;342:699–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goring DR, Walker JC. Plant sciences. Self-rejection--a new kinase connection. Science. 2004;303:1474–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sturm M, Racine C, Tape K. Climate change. Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic. Nature. 2001;411:546–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lloyd-Smith JO, Schreiber SJ, Kopp PE, Getz WM. Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence. Nature. 2005;438:355–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Edmonds ME, Foster AVM, Sanders LJ. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing; 2008.

An edited book

1. Pelillo M, editor. Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gertz O, McGlashan D. Consumer-Centric Programmatic Advertising. In: Busch O, editor. Programmatic Advertising: The Successful Transformation to Automated, Data-Driven Marketing in Real-Time. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 55–73.

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. Caffeine May Reduce Stress – But It Won’t Solve Your Problems [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/caffeine-may-reduce-stress-it-won-t-solve-your-problems/

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. Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Sep. Report No.: 092130.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Viruet HB. Effect of Forklift Operation on Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2006.

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. Oestreich JR. An Operatic Love Big Enough for a Vast Hall. New York Times. 2016 Nov 6;C5.

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