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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Medzhitov, R., 2007. Recognition of microorganisms and activation of the immune response. Nature 449, 819–826.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rolett, B., Diamond, J., 2004. Environmental predictors of pre-European deforestation on Pacific islands. Nature 431, 443–446.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koskinen, T.T., Aylward, A.D., Miller, S., 2007. A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets. Nature 450, 845–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cavallini, M., Graziosi, P., Calbucci, M., Gentili, D., Cecchini, R., Barbalinardo, M., Bergenti, I., Riminucci, A., Dediu, V., 2014. Selective electrochemical decomposition of outgrowths and nanopatterning in La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO3 perovskite thin films. Sci. Rep. 4, 7397.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W.C., 2014. Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lai, C.G., Wilmański, K. (Eds.), 2005. Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Tu, S.-F., Hsu, C.-S., 2005. A Digital Rights Management Approach for Gray-Level Images, in: Singh, S., Singh, M., Apte, C., Perner, P. (Eds.), Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005, Bath, UK, August 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–47.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Could The Big Bang Actually Be A Big Bounce? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/could-the-big-bang-actually-be-a-big-bounce/ (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, 2015. Independent Auditor’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2015 Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund (No. GAO-16-109R). 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

Felsburg, D.F., 2008. The business of evangelism: A phenomenological study of frustration and attrition among Christian evangelists (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Mallozzi, V.M., 2017. For Their Wedding, the Moon Dimmed the Lights. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Medzhitov, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov, 2007; Rolett and Diamond, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rolett and Diamond, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Cavallini et al., 2014)

About the journal

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