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

Fiorillo CD. Two dimensions of value: dopamine neurons represent reward but not aversiveness. Science 2013; 341: 546–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Movassaghi M, Jacobsen EN. Chemistry. The simplest ‘enzyme’. Science 2002; 298: 1904–1905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richards MP, Schulting RJ, Hedges REM. Archaeology: sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic. Nature 2003; 425: 366.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shinada T, Okamoto S, Kobayashi T, Ohdomari I. Enhancing semiconductor device performance using ordered dopant arrays. Nature 2005; 437: 1128–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huzurbazar AV. Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data: Huzurbazar/Flowgraph Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

King AJ. Modeling with Stochastic Programming. Springer: New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Krasauskas R, Zube S. Canal Surfaces Defined by Quadratic Families of Spheres. In: Jüttler B, Piene R (eds). Geometric Modeling and Algebraic Geometry. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp 79–92.

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

Andrews R. US Senate Fails To Pass $1.1 Billion Anti-Zika Funding Bill For Third Consecutive Time. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-senate-fails-pass-antizika-funding-bill-third-consecutive-time/ (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. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson TF. The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study. 2017.

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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1995; : 1315.

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