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

Joiner S. 2000. OPTICS: The Internet of Tomorrow. Science. 290(5498): 1907–1908.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori M, Gouaux E. 2012. Molecular mechanism of ATP binding and ion channel activation in P2X receptors. Nature. 485(7397): 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burlaga LF, Ness NF, Stone EC. 2013. Magnetic field observations as Voyager 1 entered the heliosheath depletion region. Science. 341(6142): 147–150.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pravec P, Vokrouhlický D, Polishook D, et al. 2010. Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission. Nature. 466(7310): 1085–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides CA. 2016. Discrete q-Distributions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Haslam IR, Khine MS (eds.). 2016. Leveraging Social Capital in Systemic Education Reform. Contemporary Approaches to Research in learning InnovationsSensePublishers: Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Ulubelen A, Kolak U. 2009. Chemical and Biological Studies with an Aconitum and a Delphinium Species. In: Innovations in Chemical Biology. Şener, B. (ed.) Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht: 39–49.

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. The Search of Life Beneath the Ice: Why we’re Going Back to Europa. IFLScience. IFLScienceAvailable at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/search-life-beneath-ice-why-we-re-going-back-europa/ (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. 2011. Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2011 Expenditure Plan. 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

Colna KE. 2017. Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices. Doctoral dissertationUniversity of South Florida: Tampa, FL.

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. Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil. New York Times. 27th April: NJ22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joiner, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Joiner, 2000; Hattori and Gouaux, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hattori and Gouaux, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pravec et al., 2010)

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

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