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

Harrison SC. Virology. Looking inside adenovirus. Science. 2010 Aug 27;329(5995):1026–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferguson-Smith AC, Surani MA. Imprinting and the epigenetic asymmetry between parental genomes. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1086–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spencer JP, Dineva E, Smith LB. Comment on “Infants’ perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation.” Science. 2009 Sep 25;325(5948):1624; author reply 1624.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Arzberger P, Schroeder P, Beaulieu A, Bowker G, Casey K, Laaksonen L, et al. Science and government. An international framework to promote access to data. Science. 2004 Mar 19;303(5665):1777–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wei J. Great Inventions that Changed the World. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Chen Z. Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting: Standards, Experimental Methods, and Protocols. Dinh HN, Miller E, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kapur PK, Pham H, Gupta A, Jha PC. Testing-Coverage and Testing-Domain Models. In: Pham H, Gupta A, Jha PC, editors. Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications. London: Springer; 2011. p. 131–70.

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

Andrew E. Humans Are “Super Predators” That Are Driving Widespread Extinction [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/humans-are-super-predators-are-driving-widespread-extinction-embargoed-20082015-1900-bst/

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. Race To The Top: States Implementing Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems despite Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Sep. Report No.: GAO-13-777.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dashevsky-Kerdman I. The meeting of one hundred ways [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2009.

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

Crawford S. The Wire Next Time. New York Times. 2014 Apr 28;A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harrison 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ferguson-Smith and Surani 2001; Harrison 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ferguson-Smith and Surani 2001)
Three or more authors: (Arzberger et al. 2004)

About the journal

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