How to format your references using the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Agrawal AA. Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species. Science. 2001 Oct 12;294(5541):321–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reichenbach A, Pannicke T. Neuroscience. A new glance at glia. Science. 2008 Oct 31;322(5902):693–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B. Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature. 2000 Nov 30;408(6812):549–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fricke H, Hissmann K, Schauer J, Erdmann M, Moosa MK, Plante R. Biogeography of the Indonesian coelacanths. Nature. 2000 Jan 6;403(6765):38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. Funding Atlas 2012. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Magedanz T, Karmouch A, Pierre S, Venieris I, editors. Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2005, Montreal, Canada, October 17-19, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XIV, 418 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3744).

A chapter in an edited book

Lasaygues P, Lefebvre JP, Guillermin R, Kaftandjian V, Berteau JP, Pithioux M, et al. Advanced Ultrasonic Tomograph of Children’s Bones. In: Nowicki A, Litniewski J, Kujawska T, editors. Acoustical Imaging: Volume 31. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 31–8. (Acoustical Imaging).

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 Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Sauropod Species Discovered in Tanzania. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Title 6 T&A Data (NASA). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: AIMD-95-140R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Driskill KM. A qualitative study of teacher understanding and use of differentiated instruction to promote reading achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

Gabriel T. ‘We’re Throwaway People.’ New York Times. 2017 May 22;A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine
Abbreviation	Ir. J. Psychol. Med.
ISSN (print)	0790-9667
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology