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

Smaglik P. Corridor at the crossroads: Michigan. Nature. 2002 Nov 21;420(6913):4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huey RB, Moody WJ. Neuroscience and evolution. Snake sodium channels resist TTX arrest. Science. 2002 Aug 23;297(5585):1289–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee H, Zones SI, Davis ME. A combustion-free methodology for synthesizing zeolites and zeolite-like materials. Nature. 2003 Sep 25;425(6956):385–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hilborn R, Arcese P, Borner M, Hando J, Hopcraft G, Loibooki M, et al. Effective enforcement in a conservation area. Science. 2006 Nov 24;314(5803):1266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gostick A, Elton C. Führen mit Möhren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

Borowiecki KJ, Forbes N, Fresa A, editors. Cultural Heritage in a Changing World. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XXIX, 322 p. 37 illus., 27 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

UNEP. Aid for Trade for Sustainable Development. In: Lombaerde PD, Puri L, editors. Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives: 2007 World Report on Regional Integration. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 87–98.

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

Andrew E. Low Education Carries a Similar Mortality Risk to Smoking [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/low-education-carries-similar-mortality-risk-smoking/

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. Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-97-150.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Webb CT. “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kishkovsky S. Yuri Drozdov, 91, Top Spy For K.G.B. Who Planted Agents Around the Globe. New York Times. 2017 Jul 11;B14.

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