How to format your references using the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (JCAP). 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

Macilwain C. NSF Puts Big Money into Complex Ecology. Nature 2000;407(6806):823.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pulendran B and Artis D. New Paradigms in Type 2 Immunity. Science 2012;337(6093):431–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coppedè N, Villani M and Gentile F. Diffusion Driven Selectivity in Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Sci Rep 2014;4:4297.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiang S, Cooper-Morgan A, Jiao X, et al. Structure and Function of the 5’-->3’ Exoribonuclease Rat1 and Its Activating Partner Rai1. Nature 2009;458(7239):784–788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll JM, Bowyer-Crane C, Duff FJ, et al. Developing Language and Literacy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2011.

An edited book

Turner P and Harviainen JT, (eds). Digital Make-Believe. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Staver AC, Jong WDE and Kaimowitz D. NICARAGUA’S FRONTIER: THE BOSAWAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE. In: Extreme Conflict and Tropical Forests. (Jong WD, Donovan D, and Abe K-I. eds). WORLD FORESTS Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2007; pp. 57–74.

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 Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew D. A Geologist Has Found Part Of A Lost Ocean That Existed Long Before The Atlantic. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/a-geologist-has-found-part-of-a-lost-ocean-that-existed-long-before-the-atlantic/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. The A-76 Study at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center Could Have Been Compromised by the Disclosure of Certain Information. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baudy AR. Efficacy of Glucocorticoids in Muscular Dystrophy: Signaling, Hormonal Activities, and Muscle Inflammation. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 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

Casey N. Pregnant and Facing Dilemma Over Zika. New York Times 2016;A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Pulendran and Artis, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pulendran and Artis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	J. Child Adolesc. Psychopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1044-5463
ISSN (online)	1557-8992
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health