How to format your references using the Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Personalized Medicine in 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	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

[1]

Kerp H. Atmospheric CO2 from fossil plant cuticles. Nature 2002;415:38.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hardy J, Selkoe DJ. The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease: progress and problems on the road to therapeutics. Science 2002;297:353–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

López CA, de Vries AH, Marrink SJ. Computational microscopy of cyclodextrin mediated cholesterol extraction from lipid model membranes. Sci Rep 2013;3:2071.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hodell DA, Brenner M, Curtis JH, Guilderson T. Solar forcing of drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. Science 2001;292:1367–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dean JR. Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Završnik A, editor. Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Eaton GR, Eaton SS, Barr DP, Weber RT. Practical Advice About Crucial Parameters. In: Eaton SS, Barr DP, Weber RT, editors. Quantitative EPR: A Practitioners Guide, Vienna: Springer; 2010, p. 63–7.

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 Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. How Sex Keeps The Species Healthy. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-sex-keeps-species-healthy/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Improved Testing, Evaluation, and Performance Measurement Could Enhance Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mann HM. Testing for differentially functioning indicators using mixtures of confirmatory factor analysis models. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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

[1]

Chira S, Alcindor Y. Defiant Yet Jubilant Voices Flood U.S. Cities. New York Times 2017:A1.

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	Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Pers. Med. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	2468-1717
Scope

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