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

Perez, F., 2015. Cell biology: Organelles under light control. Nature 518, 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron, J.L., Bynum, W.F., 2001. 1901 and all that. Nature 409, 13–16.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pilet, S., Baker, M.B., Stolper, E.M., 2008. Metasomatized lithosphere and the origin of alkaline lavas. Science 320, 916–919.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Devarapalli, R.R., Debgupta, J., Pillai, V.K., Shelke, M.V., 2014. C@SiNW/TiO2 core-shell nanoarrays with sandwiched carbon passivation layer as high efficiency photoelectrode for water splitting. Sci. Rep. 4, 4897.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens, F., 2015. How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dahlkamp, F.J. (Ed.), 2009. Uranium Deposits of the World: Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, Z.-Y., Yoo, Y.-J., Hwang, I., 2014. ABA Conjugates and Their Physiological Roles in Plant Cells, in: Zhang, D.-P. (Ed.), Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 77–87.

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. Why We Mustn’t Assume Smoking And Drinking Only Leads To Certain Cancers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Central Artery/Tunnel Project (No. RCED-95-213R). 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

Calderwood, A., 2014. Improving the singer’s understanding of bebop language: Transcription application (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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. 2 Justices Indicate Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Televise Sessions. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Heilbron and Bynum, 2001; Perez, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron and Bynum, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Devarapalli et al., 2014)

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