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. 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

Cruikshank DP: Planetary science. Generating an atmosphere. Science 330:1755–1756, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bever T, Montalbetti M: Linguistics. Noam’s Ark. Science 298:1565–1566, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatsu T, Sekiya T, Nagata K: DNA replication-dependent binding of CTCF plays a critical role in adenovirus genome functions. Sci Rep 3:2187, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lashuel HA, Hartley D, Petre BM, Walz T, Lansbury PT Jr: Neurodegenerative disease: amyloid pores from pathogenic mutations. Nature 418:291, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allin P, Hand DJ: The Wellbeing of Nations. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Sain S: Customer Knowledge Management: Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve Customer Focus. Edited by Wilde S. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarbo JJ, Farkas JI, van Breemen AJJ: A world of signs. In: Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation. Edited by Farkas JI and Breemen AJJ van. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011, pp 55–65.

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 E: Found: Our 3m-Year-Old Forebear Who Lived Alongside ‘Lucy.’ IFLScience, 2015.

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: Query Concerning FY 1985 Authorization Levels for Department of Education Programs. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boucher D: An action research project: Development of a pre-licensure examination review course for Emergency Medical Technician program graduates at a rural community college. 2013.

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

Shattuck K: A Break From ‘House of Cards’ Intrigue. New York Times MB2, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cruikshank 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bever and Montalbetti 2002; Cruikshank 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bever and Montalbetti 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lashuel et al. 2002)

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