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]

Gravitz L. Introduction: a smouldering public-health crisis. Nature 2011;474:S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wellik DM, Capecchi MR. Hox10 and Hox11 genes are required to globally pattern the mammalian skeleton. Science 2003;301:363–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Beddington JR, Agnew DJ, Clark CW. Current problems in the management of marine fisheries. Science 2007;316:1713–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Plath K, Fang J, Mlynarczyk-Evans SK, Cao R, Worringer KA, Wang H, et al. Role of histone H3 lysine 27 methylation in X inactivation. Science 2003;300:131–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shook JR. The God Debates. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Jin S, Barzaghi R, editors. IGFS 2014: Proceedings of the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Shanghai, China, June 30 - July 6, 2014. vol. 144. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gentile C, Alsindi N, Raulefs R, Teolis C. Cellular Localization. In: Alsindi N, Raulefs R, Teolis C, editors. Geolocation Techniques: Principles and Applications, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 137–59.

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. Earth’s Primordial Atmosphere Lost Due To Relentless Small Impacts. IFLScience 2014.

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. Education Grants: Promise Neighborhoods Promotes Collaboration but Needs National Evaluation Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grefe SE. Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Gorman J. All Aboard an ‘Alien Starship.’ 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

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