How to format your references using the Neuropsychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropsychiatry. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Yang H. China must continue the momentum of green law. Nature. 509(7502), 535 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubcovsky J, Dvorak J. Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Science. 316(5833), 1862–1866 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Brennan MD, Cheong R, Levchenko A. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science. 338(6105), 334–335 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nara H, Tanimoto H, Tohjima Y, Mukai H, Nojiri Y, Machida T. Emissions of methane from offshore oil and gas platforms in Southeast Asia. Sci. Rep. 4, 6503 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi SV. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Löffelhardt W, editor. Endosymbiosis. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Estes RJ, Tiliouine H. Social Progress in Islamic Societies: Achievements and Challenges. In: The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies: Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Challenges. Tiliouine H, Estes RJ (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 69–106 (2016).

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 Neuropsychiatry.

Blog post

Fang J. River Dolphin Sonar Is Well-Suited For Life In The Busy Amazon [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amazon-river-dolphin-biosonar-well-suited-cluttered-environments/.

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. Public Transit: Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects. 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

Thornsberry JL. Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate. (2010).

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

Leguizamo J. ‘Too Bad You’re Latin.’ New York Times, A27 (2016).

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	Neuropsychiatry
ISSN (print)	1758-2008
ISSN (online)	1758-2016
Scope	Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health