How to format your references using the General Hospital Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for General Hospital 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]

Bergman L. Damned if you don’t. Nature 2005;435:1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ruocco G, Fratalocchi A. Period doubling induced by thermal noise amplification in genetic circuits. Sci Rep 2014;4:7088.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xu Y, Ramu Y, Lu Z. Removal of phospho-head groups of membrane lipids immobilizes voltage sensors of K+ channels. Nature 2008;451:826–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Parker HG, Kim LV, Sutter NB, Carlson S, Lorentzen TD, Malek TB, et al. Genetic structure of the purebred domestic dog. Science 2004;304:1160–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cowan JP. The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Guida-Pietrasanta F. Inorganic Polymeric Nanocomposites and Membranes. vol. 179. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang Y, Guo D. System of Time-Varying Linear Equations. In: Guo D, editor. Zhang Functions and Various Models, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 49–60.

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 General Hospital Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Solving The Curious Ocean Quack Mystery. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/solving-curious-ocean-quack-mystery/ (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. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rollo E. Effect of the Stoplight Diet and mode of intervention on triglyceride production in a veteran population. 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]

Wilson M. Chelsea Bomb Suspect Prevented Another Explosion, His Lawyer Claims. New York Times 2017:A16.

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	General Hospital Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0163-8343
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health