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. Feng JL. Physics. Searching for gravity’s hidden strength. Science. 2003;302:795–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. O’Connor PM, Claessens LPAM. Basic avian pulmonary design and flow-through ventilation in non-avian theropod dinosaurs. Nature. 2005;436:253–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Powell A, Shennan S, Thomas MG. Late Pleistocene demography and the appearance of modern human behavior. Science. 2009;324:1298–301.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yang J, Zhu X, Wolf TJA, Li Z, Nunes JPF, Coffee R, et al. Imaging CF3I conical intersection and photodissociation dynamics with ultrafast electron diffraction. Science. 2018;361:64–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Glisic SG. Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Cao B-Y, editor. Fuzzy Information and Engineering: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Catalano CE, Ivrissimtzis I, Nasri A. Subdivision Surfaces and Applications. In: Floriani LD, Spagnuolo M, editors. Shape Analysis and Structuring. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 115–43.

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. O`Callaghan J. Our Solar System May Have Had An Extra Fifth Giant Planet In The Past [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-solar-system-may-have-had-extra-fifth-giant-planet-past/

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. Protest Against Rejection of Bid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Aug. Report No.: B-178720.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Duberstein JN. The shape of the commons: Social networks and the conservation of small-scale fisheries in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

1. Liptak A, Wines M. Justices Thwart Strict Voter ID Law That Unevenly Hurt Blacks. New York Times. 2017 May 15;A1.

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

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