How to format your references using the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (JGP). 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

Lewis SL. 2014. Scientist-versus-activist debates mislead the public. Nature. 506(7489): 409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roeb M, Müller-Steinhagen H. 2010. Engineering. Concentrating on solar electricity and fuels. Science. 329(5993): 773–774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Akselrod M, Herzog MH, Öğmen H. 2014. Tracing path-guided apparent motion in human primary visual cortex V1. Sci Rep. 4: 6063.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Groppe J, Greenwald J, Wiater E, et al. 2002. Structural basis of BMP signalling inhibition by the cystine knot protein Noggin. Nature. 420(6916): 636–642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane L. 2015. Knowledge and Discourse Matters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fujita R, Takahashi H (eds.). 2009. Gastrointestinal Cancer Atlas for Endoscopic Therapy. Springer Japan: Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Rusyaeva E. 2014. Cognitive Techniques of Knowledge Formation. In: Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 11th Joint Conference, JCKBSE 2014, Volgograd, Russia, September 17-20, 2014 Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information ScienceKravets, A., Shcherbakov, M., Kultsova, M., and Iijima, T. (eds.) Springer International Publishing: Cham: 40–48.

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 Geriatric Psychiatry.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Scientists Hypnotize Baby Sea Turtles For Science. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2014. Broadcast Television and Radio: Disclosure Requirements for Broadcasted Content. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peto J. 2009. A defense of Donald Davidson’s dissolution to the problem of global skepticism. Doctoral dissertationCalifornia State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg B. 2016. Slash. New York Times. 8th December: C15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis, 2014; Roeb and Müller-Steinhagen, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Roeb and Müller-Steinhagen, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Groppe et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Int. J. Geriatr. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0885-6230
ISSN (online)	1099-1166
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychiatry and Mental health