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. Roll-Mecak A. Botany. Shining light at microtubule crossroads. Science. 2013;342:1180–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yu J, Broecker WS. Comment on “Deep-sea temperature and ice volume changes across the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transitions.” Science. 2010;328:1480; author reply 1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mossinger J, White M, Goymer P. Coastal regions. Nature. 2013;504:35.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lu H, Wang C-A, Huang Y, Xie H. Multi-enhanced-phonon scattering modes in Ln-Me-A sites co-substituted LnMeA11O19 ceramics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vaseghi SV. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Sugi H, editor. Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of Research. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nikolay B. Modeling Development of Deep Horizons of Open Pits. In: Drebenstedt C, Singhal R, editors. Mine Planning and Equipment Selection: Proceedings of the 22nd MPES Conference, Dresden, Germany, 14th – 19th October 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 43–51.

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. Misshaped Fossil Plankton Signal Mass Extinctions. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Homeland Security: Oversight of Neglected Human Resources Information Technology Investment Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Feb. Report No.: GAO-16-253.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Martin JC. Tbx18 and the epicardium in cardiac development and regenerative medicine [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2008.

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. de la MERCED MJ. Nestlé Plans for Buybacks And, Perhaps, Acquisitions. New York Times. 2017 Jun 27;B4.

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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