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

Money NP. Obituary: Cecil Terence Ingold (1905-2010). Nature 2010; 465: 1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leathers ML, Olson CR. Response to comment on ‘In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value’. Science 2013; 340: 430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eilken HM, Nishikawa S-I, Schroeder T. Continuous single-cell imaging of blood generation from haemogenic endothelium. Nature 2009; 457: 896–900.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okajima T, Xu A, Lei L, Irvine KD. Chaperone activity of protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 promotes notch receptor folding. Science 2005; 307: 1599–1603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper C. Analytic Methods in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Patton W. Career Development and Systems Theory: Connecting Theory and Practice. SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez AJG. The Imperative of Context in the Age of Globalization in Creating Equity in Science Education. In: Bianchini JA, Akerson VL, Barton AC, Lee O, Rodriguez AJ (eds). Moving the Equity Agenda Forward: Equity Research, Practice, and Policy in Science Education. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013, pp 67–79.

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. Hummingbirds Are More Efficient Than Helicopters When It Comes To Hovering. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hummingbirds-are-more-efficient-helicopters-when-it-comes-hovering/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Weaknesses in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Facilities Utilization Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Douville S. The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study. 2014.

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

Pilon M. Wozniacki Is Lining Up for New York Marathon. New York Times. 2014; : B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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