How to format your references using the East Asian Archives of Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for East Asian Archives of 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

Abbott A. British panel bans use of antidepressant to treat children. Nature. 2003 Jun 19;423(6942):792.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradbury A, Plückthun A. Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research. Nature. 2015 Feb 5;518(7537):27–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hatano T, Stopa M, Tarucha S. Single-electron delocalization in hybrid vertical-lateral double quantum dots. Science. 2005 Jul 8;309(5732):268–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Andersen CBF, Ballut L, Johansen JS, Chamieh H, Nielsen KH, Oliveira CLP, et al. Structure of the exon junction core complex with a trapped DEAD-box ATPase bound to RNA. Science. 2006 Sep 29;313(5795):1968–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boero R. Behavioral Computational Social Science. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Salzberg SL, Warnow T, editors. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 9th International Workshop, WABI 2009, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 12-13, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XI, 430 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5724).

A chapter in an edited book

He M, Lu TM. Al-Dielectric Interfaces. In: Lu TM, editor. Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 45–55. (Springer Series in Materials Science).

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 East Asian Archives of Psychiatry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Incredibly Rare Double Eclipse Of The Sun By Earth And The Moon Snapped By Spacecraft. 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

Government Accountability Office. Chief Information Officers: Implementing Effective CIO Organizations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: T-AIMD-00-128.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yasa SR. Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Feeney K. Cellphone Aside, Step Up for Soup. New York Times. 2007 Apr 29;NJ6.

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	East Asian Archives of Psychiatry
Abbreviation	East Asian Arch. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	2078-9947
ISSN (online)	2224-7041
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health