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

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

Patel, A. D. (2008). Science & music: talk of the tone. Nature, 453(7196), 726–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fairchild, A. L., & Bayer, R. (2015). Public health. Smoke and fire over e-cigarettes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6220), 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bates, M. E., Simmons, J. A., & Zorikov, T. V. (2011). Bats use echo harmonic structure to distinguish their targets from background clutter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6042), 627–630.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yin, S., Zhu, X., Li, R., Niu, Y., Wang, B., Zheng, Z., Huang, X., Huo, L., & Li, J. (2014). Intervention-induced enhancement in intrinsic brain activity in healthy older adults. Scientific Reports, 4, 7309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair, T. H. (2016). Energy Production Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Y., & Li, T. (Eds.). (2011). Knowledge Engineering and Management: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shanghai, China, Dec 2011 (ISKE2011) (Vol. 123). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Travascio, F., & Gu, W. Y. (2009). Novel Video-FRAP Method for the Determination of Anisotropic Diffusion: Principles and Optimization. In A. J. McGoron, C.-Z. Li, & W.-C. Lin (Eds.), 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009, 15 – 17 May 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (pp. 9–10). Springer.

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 Law and Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 1). Five Things the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Medicine Today. 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. (1979). Problems Associated With Developing Large, Complex Data Processing Systems (FGMSD-79-49). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simmons-Johnson, N. (2012). The path to graduation: A model interactive Web site design supporting doctoral students [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Shear, M. D. (2017, May 8). Obama Says the Debate On Health Care Isn’t Over. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fairchild & Bayer, 2015; Patel, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Fairchild & Bayer, 2015)
Three authors: (Bates et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Yin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Int. J. Law Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0160-2527
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Law