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. Buiter S. Geodynamics: How plumes help to break plates. Nature. 2014;513:36–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Li L, Ye K. Crystal structure of an H/ACA box ribonucleoprotein particle. Nature. 2006;443:302–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hannon JB, Tersoff J, Tromp RM. Surface stress and thermodynamic nanoscale size selection. Science. 2002;295:299–301.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kobayashi T, Komori R, Ishida K, Kino K, Tanuma S-I, Miyazawa H. Tal2 expression is induced by all-trans retinoic acid in P19 cells prior to acquisition of neural fate. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Siddiqi N. Intelligent Credit Scoring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Shapira Y, editor. Matrix-Based Multigrid: Theory and Applications. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Claverol M, Garijo D, Korman M, Seara C, Silveira RI. Stabbing Segments with Rectilinear Objects. In: Kosowski A, Walukiewicz I, editors. Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 20th International Symposium, FCT 2015, Gdańsk, Poland, August 17-19, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–64.

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. How Do Parasites Control Their Hosts? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-changes-which-could-help-explain-parasites-mind-manipulation-discovered/

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. Technology Selection at INS Needs Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 May. Report No.: T-PEMD-88-6.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nguyen JR. Staging Vietnamese America: Music and the performance of Vietnamese American identities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Eligon J. For Some in Charlottesville, Statue Dispute Distracts From City’s Deep Racial Split. New York Times. 2017 Aug 19;A10.

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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