How to format your references using the Rorschachiana citation style

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

Netz, R. (2002). Portraits of science. Proof, amazement, and the unexpected. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5595), 967–968.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindvall, O., & Kokaia, Z. (2006). Stem cells for the treatment of neurological disorders. Nature, 441(7097), 1094–1096.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flachsova, M., Sindelka, R., & Kubista, M. (2013). Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry. Scientific Reports, 3, 2278.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abbaszadeh, S., Scott, C. C., Bubon, O., Reznik, A., & Karim, K. S. (2013). Enhanced detection efficiency of direct conversion X-ray detector using polyimide as hole-blocking layer. Scientific Reports, 3, 3360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valière, J.-C. (2014). Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hastie, T. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (R. Tibshirani & J. Friedman, Eds.; Second Edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Melo Bezerra, J., Santos Diniz, L., da Silva Montalvão, V., & Hirata, C. M. (2016). Motivating Online Teams: An Investigation on Task Significance, Coordination and Incentive Mechanisms. In V. Monfort, K.-H. Krempels, T. A. Majchrzak, & Ž. Turk (Eds.), Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 93–108). Springer International Publishing.

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 Rorschachiana.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, June 28). AI Repeatedly Beats Colonel In Aerial Combat Simulations. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-repeatedly-beats-colonel-in-aerial-combat-simulations/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Severity of Problem Calls for Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships (T-AIMD-98-278). 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

Takusi, G. S. (2010). A quantitative analysis of the extrinsic and intrinsic turnover factors of relational database support professionals [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, June 26). Crushed by Promises. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Netz, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lindvall & Kokaia, 2006; Netz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lindvall & Kokaia, 2006)
Three authors: (Flachsova et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Abbaszadeh et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rorschachiana
Abbreviation	Rorschachiana
ISSN (print)	1192-5604
ISSN (online)	2151-206X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology