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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Eisenstein M. 2013. Chronobiology: stepping out of time. Nature. 497(7450): S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimura S, Yoshioka K. 2014. Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Sci Rep. 4: 5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jansen JFA, Gearhart JD, Bulte JWM. 2008. Comment on ‘Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain’. Science. 321(5889): 640.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miller-Jensen K, Janes KA, Brugge JS, Lauffenburger DA. 2007. Common effector processing mediates cell-specific responses to stimuli. Nature. 448(7153): 604–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pickles J, Smith A, Begg R, Buček M, Roukova P, Pástor R. 2015. Articulations of Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Laisk A, Nedbal L, Govindjee (eds.). 2009. Photosynthesis in silico: Understanding Complexity from Molecules to Ecosystems. Advances in Photosynthesis and RespirationSpringer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Carpiano RM. 2008. Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health. In: Social Capital and Health. Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S. V., and Kim, D. (eds.) Springer: New York, NY: 83–93.

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. What Are The Issues Around The Use Of Human Foetal Tissue? IFLScience. IFLScienceAvailable at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-are-issues-around-use-human-foetal-tissue/ (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. 1971. Criteria Needed for Measuring Technical Assistance Results and Contractor Performance. 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

Wester AM. 2013. Readers’ trust, socio-demographic, and acuity influences in citizen journalism credibility for disrupted online newspapers. Doctoral dissertationUniversity of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ.

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

Feeney K. 2008. Sophisticated Takeout. New York Times. 16th March: NJ16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein, 2013; Kimura and Yoshioka, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kimura and Yoshioka, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Miller-Jensen 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