How to format your references using the Journal of Affective Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Affective Disorders. 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

Elmegreen, B.G., 2007. Astronomy. Dark matter in galactic collisional debris. Science 316, 1132–1133.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reverter, D., Lima, C.D., 2005. Insights into E3 ligase activity revealed by a SUMO-RanGAP1-Ubc9-Nup358 complex. Nature 435, 687–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deller, A.T., Bailes, M., Tingay, S.J., 2009. Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science 323, 1327–1329.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marshall, B.T., Long, M., Piper, J.W., Yago, T., McEver, R.P., Zhu, C., 2003. Direct observation of catch bonds involving cell-adhesion molecules. Nature 423, 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Block, T., Eggert, H., Kauschke, W., 2013. Lager im Bauwesen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Morrison, R., Balasubramaniam, D., Falkner, K. (Eds.), 2008. Software Architecture: Second European Conference, ECSA 2008 Paphos, Cyprus, September 29-October 1, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gurrib, I., 2016. The Relationship Between the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index and the Corruption Perceptions Index in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Major Economies, in: Ramady, M.A. (Ed.), The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–61.

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 Journal of Affective Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. Why Did Humans Evolve Big Penises But Small Testicles? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-did-humans-evolve-big-penises-but-small-testicles/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Underinflated Tires in the United States (No. GAO-07-246R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nam, Y.-H., 2008. On Throughput-Reliability-Delay Tradeoffs in Wireless Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. Spotify Is Said to Favor Direct Listing on N.Y.S.E. Over Public Offering. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elmegreen, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Elmegreen, 2007; Reverter and Lima, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reverter and Lima, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Marshall et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Affective Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Affect. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0165-0327
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology