How to format your references using the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related 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	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

Petherick, A. (2010). Campaigning for Chagas disease. Nature, 465(7301), S21-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knauth, L. P., & Kennedy, M. J. (2009). The late Precambrian greening of the Earth. Nature, 460(7256), 728–732.

A journal article with 3 authors

Joughin, I., Smith, B. E., & Medley, B. (2014). Marine ice sheet collapse potentially under way for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6185), 735–738.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, W., Kuebler, S. M., Braun, K. L., Yu, T., Cammack, J. K., Ober, C. K., Perry, J. W., & Marder, S. R. (2002). An efficient two-photon-generated photoacid applied to positive-tone 3D microfabrication. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1106–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, & Withers LLP. (2009). From Innovation to Cash Flows. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sinha, R. (2014). Correct-by-Construction Approaches for SoC Design (P. Roop & S. Basu, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Capasso, J., Kim, R. B., & Perret, D. (2013). Hospice for the Terminally Ill and End-of-Life Care. In N. Vadivelu, A. D. Kaye, & J. M. Berger (Eds.), Essentials of Palliative Care (pp. 49–71). Springer.

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 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, October 17). Experts Call On WHO To Reconsider Global Cannabis Ban. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). School Facilities: Construction Expenditures Have Grown Significantly in Recent Years (HEHS-00-41). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Amanoua, K. P. (2014). Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, January 19). Kerber Encounters a Pliskova Test, but Not the Usual One. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Knauth & Kennedy, 2009; Petherick, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Knauth & Kennedy, 2009)
Three authors: (Joughin et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Obsessive Compuls. Relat. Disord.
ISSN (print)	2211-3649
Scope