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

Bordignon, C., 2006. Stem-cell therapies for blood diseases. Nature 441, 1100–1102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mather, J., Mao, M., 2012. Astronomy: A conversation about observation. Nature 490, S5-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pier, H., Kapon, E., Moser, M., 2000. Strain effects and phase transitions in photonic resonator crystals. Nature 407, 880–883.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paludan, C., Schmid, D., Landthaler, M., Vockerodt, M., Kube, D., Tuschl, T., Münz, C., 2005. Endogenous MHC class II processing of a viral nuclear antigen after autophagy. Science 307, 593–596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., Lannoo, K., 2004. The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Barach, P.R., Jacobs, J.P., Lipshultz, S.E., Laussen, P.C. (Eds.), 2015. Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Monnet, C., Klug, C., De Baets, K., 2015. Evolutionary Patterns of Ammonoids: Phenotypic Trends, Convergence, and Parallel Evolution, in: Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., Mapes, R.H. (Eds.), Ammonoid Paleobiology: From Macroevolution to Paleogeography, Topics in Geobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 95–142.

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. Here Are The Areas In The Us Most Likely To Be Struck In A Nuclear Attack By Russia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. International Aviation: DOT’s Efforts to Increase U.S. Airlines’ Access to International Markets (No. T-RCED-96-32). 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

Garapati, S.H., 2013. Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Assembly Procedures of Steel Fulcra of Bascule Bridges (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Lipton, E., Protess, B., Lehren, A.W., 2017. Raft of Potential Conflicts In President’s Appointees. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bordignon, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bordignon, 2006; Mather and Mao, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mather and Mao, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Paludan et al., 2005)

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