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

Baker M. Cell therapy: being patient. Nature. 2008 Oct 2;455(7213):586–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramsey JM, Chester FM. Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture. Nature. 2004 Mar 4;428(6978):63–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng F, Li X, Duan Y. Chip-based ingroove microplasma with orthogonal signal collection: new approach for carbon-containing species detection through open air reaction for performance enhancement. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 25;4:4803.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shon JW, Ohta J, Ueno K, Kobayashi A, Fujioka H. Fabrication of full-color InGaN-based light-emitting diodes on amorphous substrates by pulsed sputtering. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 23;4:5325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sewell G. Computational Methods of Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Canbay E. Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: A Curative Approach. Yonemura Y, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XIX, 109 p. 73 illus., 62 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Hartig O, Pérez J. LDQL: A Query Language for the Web of Linked Data. In: Arenas M, Corcho O, Simperl E, Strohmaier M, d’Aquin M, Srinivas K, et al., editors. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015: 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 73–91. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Fang J. Asian Fungus is Killing European Salamanders, U.S. May Be Next [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/asian-fungus-killing-european-salamanders-us-may-be-next/

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. Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Estimated Cost of Supporting Set-Top Boxes to Help Advance the DTV Transition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Feb. Report No.: GAO-05-258T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bontrager JG. Characterization and Applications for A Polymerized DiaCEST Contrast Agent [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2015.

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

Zimmerman E. 99 Ways to be Naughty in Kazakhstan. New York Times. 2012 Aug 3;MM22.

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