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

Rieppel O. Evolution. How did the turtle get its shell? Science. 2009 Jul 10;325(5937):154–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters DH, Bloom G. Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature. 2012 Jul 11;487(7406):163–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foote AD, Osborne RW, Hoelzel AR. Environment: whale-call response to masking boat noise. Nature. 2004 Apr 29;428(6986):910.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Heppner FL, Musahl C, Arrighi I, Klein MA, Rülicke T, Oesch B, et al. Prevention of scrapie pathogenesis by transgenic expression of anti-prion protein antibodies. Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):178–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eynon J. The Design Manager’s Handbook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

Tremblay VJ. New Perspectives on Industrial Organization: With Contributions from Behavioral Economics and Game Theory. Tremblay CH, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. XXVI, 811 p. (Springer Texts in Business and Economics).

A chapter in an edited book

Segredo E, Segura C, León C. On the Comparison of Parallel Island-Based Models for the Multiobjectivised Antenna Positioning Problem. In: König A, Dengel A, Hinkelmann K, Kise K, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 32–41. (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

Andrews R. The Chemistry Of Titan Could Pave The Way For Future Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-chemistry-of-titan-could-pave-the-way-for-future-life/

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. Freight Railroad Safety: Hours of Service Changes Have Increased Rest Time, but More Can Be Done to Address Fatigue Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Sep. Report No.: GAO-11-853.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murray RW. The Florida Migrant Education Program: An analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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

Widdicombe B. Glamour? There’s an App for That. New York Times. 2017 Aug 4;ST4.

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