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

Ranganathan, R. (2007). Biochemistry. Signaling across the cell membrane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5854), 1253–1254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malik, S., & Roeder, R. G. (2013). Biochemistry. Have your PIC! Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6159), 706–707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Junker, J. P., Ziegler, F., & Rief, M. (2009). Ligand-dependent equilibrium fluctuations of single calmodulin molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 633–637.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhao, Q., Zhou, H., Chi, S., Wang, Y., Wang, J., Geng, J., Wu, K., Liu, W., Zhang, T., Dong, M.-Q., Wang, J., Li, X., & Xiao, B. (2018). Structure and mechanogating mechanism of the Piezo1 channel. Nature, 554(7693), 487–492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lißner, K., & Rug, W. (2016). Der Eurocode 5 für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung und Konstruktion von Holzbauten. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Backhaus, J. (Ed.). (2015). Great Nations at Peril (Vol. 17). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pla, L., Casanoves, F., & Di Rienzo, J. (2012). How to Estimate Functional Diversity Indices. In F. Casanoves & J. Di Rienzo (Eds.), Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (pp. 53–95). Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, February 3). Nitrogen-Fed Bacteria Could Power Our Future. 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. (1987). University Funding: Patterns of Distribution of Federal Research Funds to Universities (RCED-87-67BR). 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

Knoth, K. C. (2017). Biological Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Examination of an Introductory Level Implementation [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois University.

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

Miller, S. (2017, May 25). Tennis Stars on Steroids? It’s Make Believe, Right? New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ranganathan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Malik & Roeder, 2013; Ranganathan, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Malik & Roeder, 2013)
Three authors: (Junker et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2018)

About the journal

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