How to format your references using the Molecular Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Psychiatry. 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

Watson A. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: Getting More Out of Space. Science. 2000;290:1287b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nandagopal N, Elowitz MB. Synthetic biology: integrated gene circuits. Science. 2011;333:1244–1248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregory JM, Huybrechts P, Raper SCB. Climatology: threatened loss of the Greenland ice-sheet. Nature. 2004;428:616.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Auffray C, Fogg D, Garfa M, Elain G, Join-Lambert O, Kayal S, et al. Monitoring of blood vessels and tissues by a population of monocytes with patrolling behavior. Science. 2007;317:666–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunt RR, Cunic JD. Profiles in Flue Gas Desulfurization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

Park NC, Kim SW, Moon DG, editors. Penile Augmentation. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Biasin M. The German Cooperative Banks. An Economic Overview. In: Karafolas S, editor. Credit Cooperative Institutions in European Countries, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 83–110.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Stem Cells May Hold The Key To Fixing A Mutated Gene That Causes Blindness. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-may-hold-key-fixing-mutated-gene-causes-blindness/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Highway Safety: Trends in Highway Fatalities 1975-1987. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ge Z. Link performance analysis of disaster monitoring system. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

Grisham J. John Grisham’s Suggestions for Writing Popular Fiction. New York Times. 2017:BR31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1476-5578
Scope