How to format your references using the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 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

Abbott, A. (2000). CERN considers chasing up hints of Higgs boson. European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Nature, 407(6800), 8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dobberstein, B., & Sinning, I. (2004). Structural biology. Surprising news from the PCC. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), 320–322.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakoshi, H., Wang, H., & Yasuda, R. (2011). Local, persistent activation of Rho GTPases during plasticity of single dendritic spines. Nature, 472(7341), 100–104.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gupta, V., Kyaw, A. K. K., Wang, D. H., Chand, S., Bazan, G. C., & Heeger, A. J. (2013). Barium: an efficient cathode layer for bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Scientific Reports, 3, 1965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mauthe, A., & Thomas, P. (2005). Professional Content Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wierzbicki, A. P., & Nakamori, Y. (Eds.). (2006). Creative Space: Models of Creative Processes for Knowledge Civilization Age (Vol. 10). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bjerring, P., & Christiansen, K. (2011). Facial Rejuvenation and Other Clinical Applications of Intense Pulsed Light. In C. Raulin & S. Karsai (Eds.), Laser and IPL Technology in Dermatology and Aesthetic Medicine (pp. 61–82). Springer.

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 Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). Will The Presidential Candidates Have A Substantive Debate On Climate Change? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1977). Control of the National Science Foundation Peer Review Study (HRD-77-67). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Okada, H. (2008). Modulation of BACE1 by a novel sorting nexin in Alzheimer’s disease [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, February 16). Film Series. New York Times, C28.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2000; Dobberstein & Sinning, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dobberstein & Sinning, 2004)
Three authors: (Murakoshi et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Gupta et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
Abbreviation	Psychiatr. Rehabil. J.
ISSN (print)	1095-158X
ISSN (online)	1559-3126
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Rehabilitation Health Professions (miscellaneous)