How to format your references using the Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging citation style

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

Kling, J., 2015. Cytometry: Measure for measure. Nature 518, 439–443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Machin, S., Pekkarinen, T., 2008. Assessment. Global sex differences in test score variability. Science 322, 1331–1332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnaud-Haond, S., Arrieta, J.M., Duarte, C.M., 2011. Global genetic resources. Marine biodiversity and gene patents. Science 331, 1521–1522.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, X., Guo, G., Ji, C., Huang, K., Zha, C., Wang, Y., Shen, L., Gupta, A., Bao, N., 2014. Efficient thermolysis route to monodisperse Cu₂ZnSnS₄ nanocrystals with controlled shape and structure. Sci. Rep. 4, 5086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loriaux, D.L., 2016. A Biographical History of Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ammar, A., Bernstein, M. (Eds.), 2014. Neurosurgical Ethics in Practice: Value-based Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

López-Benítez, M., Casadevall, F., 2011. An Overview of Spectrum Occupancy Models for Cognitive Radio Networks, in: Casares-Giner, V., Manzoni, P., Pont, A. (Eds.), NETWORKING 2011 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, PE-CRN, NC-Pro, WCNS, and SUNSET 2011, Held at NETWORKING 2011, Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 32–41.

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: Neuroimaging.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Are You A Psychopath? Take This Test To Find Out [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/are-you-a-psychopath-take-this-test-to-find-out/ (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, 1982. Budget Authority Rescission Proposals (No. OGC-82-11). 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

Perez, V., 2010. Overrepresentation of American Indian youth in foster care: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Slotnik, D.E., 2016. Joyce Carol Thomas, 78, Novelist and Poet. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kling, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kling, 2015; Machin and Pekkarinen, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Machin and Pekkarinen, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Abbreviation	Psychiatry Res. Neuroimaging
ISSN (print)	0925-4927
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Neuroscience (miscellaneous)