How to format your references using the European Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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	Download the output style file
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]

Branch D. Astrophysics. When a white dwarf explodes. Science 2003;299:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Day J, Beamish J. Low-temperature shear modulus changes in solid 4He and connection to supersolidity. Nature 2007;450:853–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ballester GE, Sing DK, Herbert F. The signature of hot hydrogen in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b. Nature 2007;445:511–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Klussmann M, Iwamura H, Mathew SP, Wells DH Jr, Pandya U, Armstrong A, et al. Thermodynamic control of asymmetric amplification in amino acid catalysis. Nature 2006;441:621–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gustafsson F. Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Collard M, editor. Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems: First and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006 Revised Papers. vol. 4623. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Scholtes-Spang K, Demant H, Benz M. Sleep Disorders of Early Childhood. In: Cierpka M, editor. Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 67–88.

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 European Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Gorgeous New Hubble Image Of Cosmic Butterfly Wings. 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. Can Cost Accounting Help Manage the Rising Costs of ADP Operations? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aggarwal E. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Wagner J. First-Base Prospect Finally Lives the Dream During a Mets Victory. New York Times 2017:D2.

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	European Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Eur. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0924-9338
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health