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

Smaglik P. 2004. Home and away. Nature. 432(7013): 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kalcheim C, Rohrer H. 2014. Neuroscience. Following the same nerve track toward different cell fates. Science. 345(6192): 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois RL, Beiko RG, Ragan MA. 2003. Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature. 421(6920): 217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang C-C, Lee J-C, Luo S-Y, et al. 2007. Regioselective one-pot protection of carbohydrates. Nature. 446(7138): 896–899.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valière J-C. 2014. Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gangi A, Guth S, Guermazi A (eds.). 2009. Imaging in Percutaneous Musculoskeletal Interventions. Medical Radiology, Diagnostic ImagingSpringer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Saito Y, Alino PM. 2008. Regional Conditions. In: Asia-Pacific Coasts and Their Management: States of Environment. Coastal Systems and Continental MarginsMimura, N. (ed.) Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht: 255–344.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Peanuts In Diet Linked To Lower Mortality. IFLScience. IFLScienceAvailable at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/peanuts-diet-linked-lower-mortality/ (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. 2001. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Significant Challenges in Protecting Federal Systems and Developing Analysis and Warning Capabilities. 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

Liang Y. 2005. Studies of E. coli YidC and Other Factors for Membrane Protein Insertion. Doctoral dissertationOhio State University: Columbus, OH.

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

Paulson M. 2017. ‘King Kong’ Gets Closer to Broadway. New York Times. 17th May: C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Kalcheim and Rohrer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kalcheim and Rohrer, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2007)

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