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

Callaway, E. (2015). Computers read the fossil record. Nature, 523(7558), 115–116.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brisson, J. A., & Nuzhdin, S. V. (2008). Rarity of males in pea aphids results in mutational decay. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5859), 58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eerenstein, W., Mathur, N. D., & Scott, J. F. (2006). Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. Nature, 442(7104), 759–765.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Denisov, D., Dang, M. T., Struth, B., Wegdam, G., & Schall, P. (2013). Resolving structural modifications of colloidal glasses by combining x-ray scattering and rheology. Scientific Reports, 3, 1631.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Griffin, P. M., Nembhard, H. B., DeFlitch, C. J., Bastian, N. D., Kang, H., & Muñoz, D. A. (2015). Healthcare Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Helfert, M., Desprez, F., Ferguson, D., & Leymann, F. (Eds.). (2014). Cloud Computing and Services Science: Third International Conference, CLOSER 2013, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 453). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schuller, B. W. (2016). Acquisition of Affect. In M. Tkalčič, B. De Carolis, M. de Gemmis, A. Odić, & A. Košir (Eds.), Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services: Models, Evaluation and Applications (pp. 57–80). Springer International Publishing.

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, D. (2016, October 19). How Many Genes Does It Take To Make A Person? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-many-genes-does-it-take-to-make-a-person/

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. (1983). GAO Research Guide: Electronic Data Processing (OLS-83-3). 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

Duan, C. (2004). Dynamic Analysis of Dry Friction Path in a Torsional System [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

George, R. P. (2014, December 21). The Evangelist. New York Times, BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Callaway, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brisson & Nuzhdin, 2008; Callaway, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brisson & Nuzhdin, 2008)
Three authors: (Eerenstein et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Denisov et al., 2013)

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