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

Sundqvist B. 2014. Mapping intermolecular bonding in C₆₀. Sci Rep. 4: 6171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones JDG, Dangl JL. 2006. The plant immune system. Nature. 444(7117): 323–329.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Tonder GJ, Lyons MJ, Ejima Y. 2002. Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Nature. 419(6905): 359–360.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Johnson D, Campbell CD, Lee JA, Callaghan TV, Gwynn-Jones D. 2002. Arctic microorganisms respond more to elevated UV-B radiation than CO2. Nature. 416(6876): 82–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schiesser WE. 2017. Spline Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Krishnamachari B, Murphy AL, Trigoni N (eds.). 2014. Wireless Sensor Networks: 11th European Conference, EWSN 2014, Oxford, UK, February 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceSpringer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Conio M, De Ceglie A. 2013. Esophageal Prostheses. In: Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Kozarek, R., Baron, T., and Song, H.-Y. (eds.) Springer: New York, NY: 73–87.

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

Davis J. 2015. Abuse Of Carbon Credit Scheme Might Have Increased Carbon Emissions By 600 Million Tonnes. IFLScience. IFLScienceAvailable at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/abuse-carbon-credit-scheme-might-have-increased-carbon-emissions-600-million-tonnes/ (Accessed: 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. 2004. Commercial Aviation: Legacy Airlines Must Further Reduce Costs to Restore Profitability. 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

Wang T. 2013. Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media. Doctoral dissertationUniversity of California San Diego: La Jolla, 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

Steven Lee Myers; Erin, Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting for this article. 2004. Suicide Bomber Kills 9 at Moscow Subway Station. New York Times. 1st September: A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sundqvist, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sundqvist, 2014; Jones and Dangl, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Jones and Dangl, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Johnson 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