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

Oard DW (2008) Social science. Unlocking the potential of the spoken word. Science 321:1787–1788

A journal article with 2 authors

Vojvodic A, Nørskov JK (2011) Chemistry. Optimizing perovskites for the water-splitting reaction. Science 334:1355–1356

A journal article with 3 authors

Balco G, Rovey CW 2nd, Stone JOH (2005) The first glacial maximum in North America. Science 307:222

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McLellan JS, Marcos S, Prieto PM, Burns SA (2002) Imperfect optics may be the eye’s defence against chromatic blur. Nature 417:174–176

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez J (2011) Handbook of Corporate Equity Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Ortmeier F, Rauzy A (2014) Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 4th International Symposium, IMBSA 2014, Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

de Garis H (2007) Artificial Brains. In: Goertzel B, Pennachin C (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 159–174

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

Andrew E (2015) Study Of More Than 3,500 Human Brains Reveals The Cause Of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-suggests-tau-not-amyloid-major-driver-alzheimers/. 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 (1976) Report to the Secretary, HEW, on the National Direct Student Loan Delinquency Rate. 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

Aghaee M (2016) Analysis of Dynamics and Optimal Control for an SIR Epidemiological Model with Time-varying Populations. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey G (2011) Smile When You Say It: Same Old Jets. New York Times B25

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)