How to format your references using the Journal of Psychiatric Research citation style

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

Fisher, K., 2000. BIOMEDICINE: “Glue Grant” Boosts Cell Signaling Consortium. Science 289, 1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richter, J.D., Theurkauf, W.E., 2001. Development. The message is in the translation. Science 293, 60–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh, S.K., Yamashita, A., Gouaux, E., 2007. Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature 448, 952–956.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Puneet, P., Podila, R., Karakaya, M., Zhu, S., He, J., Tritt, T.M., Dresselhaus, M.S., Rao, A.M., 2013. Preferential scattering by interfacial charged defects for enhanced thermoelectric performance in few-layered n-type Bi2Te3. Sci. Rep. 3, 3212.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain, R.K., Triandis, H.C., Weick, C.W., 2010. Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pattaro, E., Roversi, C. (Eds.), 2016. A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Volume 12: Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World, Tome 1: Language Areas, Tome 2: Main Orientations and Topics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Robertson, S., 2011. The Web, the Home and the Search Engine, in: Harper, R. (Ed.), The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life. Springer, London, pp. 79–91.

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 Psychiatric Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Twenty Cognitive Biases That Could Be Helping You Make Bad Decisions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/20-cognitive-biases-which-make-you-form-bad-decisions/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2005. D.C. Charter Schools: Strengthening Monitoring and Process When Schools Close Could Improve Accountability and Ease Student Transitions (No. GAO-06-73). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beard, A.R., 2017. Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Getting Inside the Mind of Bach. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisher, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fisher, 2000; Richter and Theurkauf, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Richter and Theurkauf, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Puneet et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychiatric Research
Abbreviation	J. Psychiatr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3956
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry