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

Fratzl P. Materials science. A composite matter of alignment. Science. 2012 Jan 13;335(6065):177–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mittal S, Hafezi M. Materials science: Round the bend with microwaves. Nature. 2015 Jun 18;522(7556):292–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fried SI, Münch TA, Werblin FS. Mechanisms and circuitry underlying directional selectivity in the retina. Nature. 2002 Nov 28;420(6914):411–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raaijmakers MHGP, Mukherjee S, Guo S, Zhang S, Kobayashi T, Schoonmaker JA, et al. Bone progenitor dysfunction induces myelodysplasia and secondary leukaemia. Nature. 2010 Apr 8;464(7290):852–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perrin V. MRI Techniques. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Schuetze O, Coello Coello CA, Tantar A-A, Tantar E, Bouvry P, Moral PD, et al., editors. EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation III. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumano H, Suemune I, Kishino K, Fujita S, Sandhu A, Suzuki N, et al. Novel Nano-Heterostructure Materials and Related Devices. In: Takahashi K, Yoshikawa A, Sandhu A, editors. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Fundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic Devices. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 281–327.

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

Fang J. Antarctic Ice Shelf Set To Collapse Within A Century [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/colossal-antarctic-ice-shelf-thinning-top-and-bottom/

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. Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Sep. Report No.: GAO-01-935.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

French DC. A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Barron J. Stepping Off Fifth Ave., Into a 1920s Paris Apartment. New York Times. 2017 Jan 1;A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fratzl 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fratzl 2012; Mittal and Hafezi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mittal and Hafezi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Raaijmakers et al. 2010)

About the journal

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