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. Rees MJ. Cosmology. How the cosmic dark age ended. Science. 2002;295:51–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Weyand S, Iwata S. Biochemistry. Old gate gets a new look. Science. 2010;329:151–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wada S, Oishi M, Yamada TK. A newly discovered species of living baleen whale. Nature. 2003;426:278–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Potts M, Halperin DT, Kirby D, Swidler A, Marseille E, Klausner JD, et al. Public health. Reassessing HIV prevention. Science. 2008;320:749–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Meghouar H. Corporate Takeover Targets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Antsaklis PJ. A Linear Systems Primer. Michel AN, editor. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schultz D, Cook C. Using Images. In: Cook C, editor. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2007. p. 105–29.

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. Hamilton K. How Your Parent’s Lifespan Affects Your Health [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-your-parents-lifespan-affects-your-health/

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. Transfer Students: Postsecondary Institutions Could Promote More Consistent Consideration of Coursework by Not Basing Determinations on Accreditation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Oct. Report No.: GAO-06-22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Prather MR. Pink, blues, blacks, and the Union Jack: Mod’s reinterpretation of Britishness, 1962-1964 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

1. Wagner J. Already Loaded With Talent, Cubs May Get a Slugger Back From an Injury. New York Times. 2016 Oct 25;B10.

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

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