How to format your references using the Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 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

Gewin V. Count on it. Nature. 2007; 445: 946–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto Y, Maller JL. A centrosomal localization signal in cyclin E required for Cdk2-independent S phase entry. Science. 2004; 306: 885–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakellariou D, Le Goff G, Jacquinot J-F. High-resolution, high-sensitivity NMR of nanolitre anisotropic samples by coil spinning. Nature. 2007; 447: 694–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Curro NJ, Caldwell T, Bauer ED, Morales LA, Graf MJ, Bang Y, et al. Unconventional superconductivity in PuCoGa5. Nature. 2005; 434: 622–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens U, Erkens R, Müller W. Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

Suit HD. Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Velarde G, Santamaría NC. KEY ASPECTS ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION MEASURES. In: Apikyan S, Diamond D (eds.). Countering Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 85–94.

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 Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Huge “Asteroid” Set To Fly Past Earth Today Is Actually A Dead Comet - And It Looks Just Like A Skull! IFLScience. 2015; [Cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/huge-asteroid-set-fly-past-earth-today-actually-dead-comet-and-it-looks-just-skull/

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. Telecommunications: Information Collection and Management at the Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De La Cruz CF. A program evaluation of a literacy initiative for students with moderate to severe disabilities. 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

Stephens J. Secrets of the Metropolis. New York Times. 2017; : BR21.

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	Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Abbreviation	Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1323-1316
ISSN (online)	1440-1819
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health General Neuroscience Neurology