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]

Stockman MI. Applied optics. Nanoplasmonic sensing and detection. Science 2015;348:287–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Accardi A, Miller C. Secondary active transport mediated by a prokaryotic homologue of ClC Cl- channels. Nature 2004;427:803–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wake H, Lee PR, Fields RD. Control of local protein synthesis and initial events in myelination by action potentials. Science 2011;333:1647–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Neetu S, Suresh I, Shankar R, Shankar D, Shenoi SSC, Shetye SR, et al. Comment on “The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004.” Science 2005;310:1431; author reply 1431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lundberg U, Cooper CL. The Science of Occupational Health. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Vaidya S, Jain LC, Yoshida H, editors. Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare-2. vol. 65. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Asakawa Y, Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F. Chemical Constituents of Bryophyta. In: Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F, editors. Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics, Vienna: Springer; 2013, p. 563–605.

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. If We Are To Find Life Beyond Earth, We Need To Be Explorers, Not Hunters. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/if-we-are-find-life-beyond-earth-we-need-be-explorers-not-hunters/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Anderson JS. Boys in crisis: A grounded theory study of male high school dropouts in a rural setting. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Turns Down Detainees’ Habeas Corpus Case. New York Times 2007:A18.

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