How to format your references using the Psychiatry Research citation style

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

Fischer, R., 2008. Developmental biology. Sex and poison in the dark. Science 320, 1430–1431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, E., Rapoport, T.A., 2011. Preserving the membrane barrier for small molecules during bacterial protein translocation. Nature 473, 239–242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto, A., White, J.D., Simoneit, B.R.T., 2002. Natural product terpenoids in Eocene and Miocene conifer fossils. Science 297, 1543–1545.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Potter, B.A., Vinner, L., Steinrücken, M., Rasmussen, S., Terhorst, J., Kamm, J.A., Albrechtsen, A., Malaspinas, A.-S., Sikora, M., Reuther, J.D., Irish, J.D., Malhi, R.S., Orlando, L., Song, Y.S., Nielsen, R., Meltzer, D.J., Willerslev, E., 2018. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans. Nature 553, 203–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca, L., Eckert, H., 2005. Phosgenations - A Handbook. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Murphy, F., McAlea, E.M., Mullins, M. (Eds.), 2016. Managing Risk in Nanotechnology: Topics in Governance, Assurance and Transfer, Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Carey, F.A., Sundberg, R.J., 2007. Polar Addition and Elimination Reactions, in: Sundberg, R.J. (Ed.), Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part A: Structure and Mechanisms, Advanced Organic Chemistry. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 473–577.

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 Research.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. New Armor Makes Batteries Safe to Swallow [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-armor-makes-batteries-safe-swallow/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. Comments on JTPA Bills (No. HRD-92-35R). 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

Kim, H., 2017. Empathy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Practices (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2015. You Too Can Learn to Draw, Online. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fischer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer, 2008; Park and Rapoport, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Park and Rapoport, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Moreno-Mayar et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychiatry Research
Abbreviation	Psychiatry Res.
ISSN (print)	0165-1781
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry