How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in 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

1. Mervis J. Funding. NIH program fails to launch blacks in biotech. Science. 2015;350:896.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Armakolas A, Klar AJS. Cell type regulates selective segregation of mouse chromosome 7 DNA strands in mitosis. Science. 2006;311:1146–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Djuranovic S, Nahvi A, Green R. A parsimonious model for gene regulation by miRNAs. Science. 2011;331:550–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chmiola J, Yushin G, Gogotsi Y, Portet C, Simon P, Taberna PL. Anomalous increase in carbon capacitance at pore sizes less than 1 nanometer. Science. 2006;313:1760–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Thompson GR. Reading the American Novel 1865-1914. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Zizek B, Garz D, Nowak E, editors. Kohlberg Revisited. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sarin S, Dholakia N. Higher Education in India at a Crossroads: The Imperative for Transcending Stagnation and Embracing Innovation. In: Turcan RV, Reilly JE, Bugaian L, editors. (Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder and Educational Values in Higher Education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 55–72.

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 Treatment Options in Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Squirrel Virus Suspected in the Deaths of Three People in Germany [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squirrel-virus-suspected-deaths-three-people-germany/

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Additional Action Needed to Achieve Intended Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Jul. Report No.: GAO-15-627.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Farrell DP. Teachers’ Perceptions of How the Use of Peer Evaluation Could Improve Their Teaching Practice [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Qiu L. Women and the Draft. New York Times. 2017 Apr 27;A13.

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 Treatment Options in Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	2196-3061
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