How to format your references using the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology citation style

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

Huybers P (2011) Combined obliquity and precession pacing of late Pleistocene deglaciations. Nature 480:229–232

A journal article with 2 authors

Linkerhand M, Gros C (2013) Generating functionals for autonomous latching dynamics in attractor relict networks. Sci Rep 3:2042

A journal article with 3 authors

Bordenstein SR, O’Hara FP, Werren JH (2001) Wolbachia-induced incompatibility precedes other hybrid incompatibilities in Nasonia. Nature 409:707–710

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gross L, Mohn F, Moll N, et al (2009) The chemical structure of a molecule resolved by atomic force microscopy. Science 325:1110–1114

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Christophers B (2013) Banking Across Boundaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Talia D (2008) Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Canale D (2009) The Many Faces of the Codification of Law in Modern Continental Europe. In: Pattaro E, Canale D, Grossi P, et al (eds) A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Vol. 9: A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600-1900; Vol. 10: The Philosophers’ Philosophy of Law from the Seventeenth Century to our Days. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 135–183

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 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) BPA Alternative May Not Be Any Safer Than BPA for Embryonic Brain. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bpa-alternative-may-not-be-any-safer-bpa-embryonic-brain/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2003) National Airspace System: Reauthorizing FAA Provides Opportunities and Options to Address Challenges. 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

Denz TA (2012) Performance Evaluation of a Magnetically Enhanced Micro-Cathode Vacuum Arc Thruster. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Johnson G (2015) ‘Cheaters’ Give Rise to Cancer. New York Times D4

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Abbreviation	Soc. Psychiatry Psychiatr. Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)	0933-7954
ISSN (online)	1433-9285
Scope	Epidemiology Psychiatry and Mental health Social Psychology Health(social science)