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

Frenking, G., 2005. Chemistry. Building a quintuple bond. Science 310, 796–797.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harvey, T.H.P., Butterfield, N.J., 2008. Sophisticated particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean. Nature 452, 868–871.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray, R.D., Drummond, A.J., Greenhill, S.J., 2009. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science 323, 479–483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dueber, E.L.C., Corn, J.E., Bell, S.D., Berger, J.M., 2007. Replication origin recognition and deformation by a heterodimeric archaeal Orc1 complex. Science 317, 1210–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich, L.V., 2005. Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Krause, A., 2005. The Basics of S-PLUS, Fourth Edition. ed, Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Arshad, S., 2016. The Relationship Between Islamic Stock Markets and Business Cycles: A Regional Perspective, in: Alam, N., Rizvi, S.A.R. (Eds.), Islamic Capital Markets: Volatility, Performance and Stability. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–65.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. New Evidence Suggests Early Mars Had A Vast Ocean [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-evidence-suggests-early-mars-had-vast-ocean/ (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, 2007. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirements Is Not Clear (No. GAO-07-778T). 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

Mavromati, A., 2012. One Foot In (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

Dwyer, J., 2016. Corruption in New York: An Unscrupulous History. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frenking, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Frenking, 2005; Harvey and Butterfield, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Harvey and Butterfield, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dueber et al., 2007)

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