How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Psychiatry citation style

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

1. Birney E. The making of ENCODE: Lessons for big-data projects. Nature. 2012;489:49–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reineke S, Baldo MA. Room temperature triplet state spectroscopy of organic semiconductors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3797.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yang X, Zhou Y, Xiao M. Entangler via electromagnetically induced transparency with an atomic ensemble. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3479.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Medeiros RB, Burbach BJ, Mueller KL, Srivastava R, Moon JJ, Highfill S, et al. Regulation of NF-kappaB activation in T cells via association of the adapter proteins ADAP and CARMA1. Science. 2007;316:754–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

1. Baryshev Y. Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology: Exploring the Realm of Galaxies. Teerikorpi P, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gama V, Almeida M. Metallocenium Salts of Transition Metal Bisdichalcogenate Anions; Structure and Magnetic Properties. In: Fourmigué M, Ouahab L, editors. Conducting and Magnetic Organometallic Molecular Materials. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 97–140.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. The Ice of Ceres Tell Us About Its Changing Tilt [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-ice-of-ceres-tell-us-about-its-changing-tilt/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. GAO’s Need for an Interim Management Data System (MDS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Feb. Report No.: B-161744.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Anderson JS. Boys in crisis: A grounded theory study of male high school dropouts in a rural setting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

1. Feeney K. Glorifying the Chickpea. New York Times. 2011 Apr 3;NJ9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Molecular Psychiatry
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	2049-9256
Scope