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

Wara M (2007) Is the global carbon market working? Nature 445:595–596

A journal article with 2 authors

Thiel PA, Dubois JM (2000) Quasicrystals. Electrons in a strange sea. Nature 406:570–1, 573

A journal article with 3 authors

Haider B, Häusser M, Carandini M (2013) Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex. Nature 493:97–100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gabaix X, Gopikrishnan P, Plerou V, Stanley HE (2003) A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations. Nature 423:267–270

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh AH (1996) Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Vejnarová J, Kratochvíl V (2016) Belief Functions: Theory and Applications: 4th International Conference, BELIEF 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kabir SMR, Casey ATH (2012) Non-Dysraphic Intradural Spinal Cord Lipoma: Management Guidelines. In: Hayat MA (ed) Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 6: Spinal Tumors (Part 1). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 29–34

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

Andrews R (2016) Five WW2 Warships And A Submarine Have Vanished From The Seafloor. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ww2-warships-submarine-vanished-seafloor/. 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 (1998) Head Start: Challenges in Monitoring Program Quality and Demonstrating Results. 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

Pena H (2017) Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Marx L (2015) That Gravy Boat Has Sailed. New York Times ST10

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)

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