How to format your references using the Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry. 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

Service RF. Structural biology. Protein structure initiative: phase 3 or phase out. Science. 2008;319(5870):1610-1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamaru H, Selker EU. A histone H3 methyltransferase controls DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa. Nature. 2001;414(6861):277-283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rieseberg LH, Wood TE, Baack EJ. The nature of plant species. Nature. 2006;440(7083):524-527.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiao M, Chen L, Wu X, Wen F. The association between the rs6495309 polymorphism in CHRNA3 gene and lung cancer risk in Chinese: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards SA, Hollerton JC. Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Bhaduri S, Mukherjee I, eds. Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)Longing. 1st ed. 2016. Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakka MA, Defude B. Scalability Issues in Designing and Implementing Semantic Provenance Management Systems. In: Hameurlain A, Hussain FK, Morvan F, Tjoa AM, eds. Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems: 5th International Conference, Globe 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 5-6, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:49-61.

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 Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry.

Blog post

Hale T. Cats Might Not Be Total Jerks After All, According To Study. IFLScience. March 27, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-might-not-be-total-jerks-after-all-according-to-study/

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

Government Accountability Office. Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ahmadi SA. Synergistic Interplay between Math Search and Handwritten Mathematical Notation Recognition. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2009.

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

Murphy MJO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Look Back. New York Times. July 31, 2015:C24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry
ISSN (print)	2405-8017
Scope