How to format your references using the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. 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

Bozell JJ. Chemistry. Connecting biomass and petroleum processing with a chemical bridge. Science. 2010 Jul 30;329(5991):522–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kossinets G, Watts DJ. Empirical analysis of an evolving social network. Science. 2006 Jan 6;311(5757):88–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittington AG, Hofmeister AM, Nabelek PI. Temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity of the Earth’s crust and implications for magmatism. Nature. 2009 Mar 19;458(7236):319–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Trepat X, Deng L, An SS, Navajas D, Tschumperlin DJ, Gerthoffer WT, et al. Universal physical responses to stretch in the living cell. Nature. 2007 May 31;447(7144):592–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill D, Fletcher R. Normal Binocular Vision. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

Ellerton NF. Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books. Clements MA (ken), editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lamanna DD, Lodi G, Baldoni R. How Not to Be Seen in the Cloud: A Progressive Privacy Solution for Desktop-as-a-Service. In: Meersman R, Panetto H, Dillon T, Rinderle-Ma S, Dadam P, Zhou X, et al., editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 492–510.

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 International Journal of Bipolar Disorders.

Blog post

Luntz S. Antarctic Ozone Layer Shows Early Signs Of Healing [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-ozone-layer-shows-early-signs-of-healing/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Better Data Needed to Rate the Nation’s Highway Conditions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: RCED-99-264.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson S. Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Barboza D. Chinese Group Reveals Shift Of Ownership To Foundation. New York Times. 2017 Jul 25;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bozell 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bozell 2010; Kossinets and Watts 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kossinets and Watts 2006)
Three or more authors: (Trepat et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
Abbreviation	Int. J. Bipolar Disord.
ISSN (online)	2194-7511
Scope