How to format your references using the The American Journal of Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP). 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

Maunz P: Quantum physics: gentle measurement. Nature 2011; 475:180–181

A journal article with 2 authors

Rhoten D, Parker A: Education. Risks and rewards of an interdisciplinary research path. Science 2004; 306:2046

A journal article with 3 authors

Abramson J, Paz A, Philipson KD: Structural biology. It’s all in the symmetry. Science 2012; 335:669–670

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pang SS, Berry R, Chen Z, et al.: The structural basis for autonomous dimerization of the pre-T-cell antigen receptor. Nature 2010; 467:844–848

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu X, Ding C, Hu D: Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. Solaris South Tower, Singapore, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2013

An edited book

Yu Z, Liscano R, Chen G, et al., editors: Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 7th International Conference, UIC 2010, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2010

A chapter in an edited book

Albert E, Genaim S, Gordillo P: May-Happen-in-Parallel Analysis for Asynchronous Programs with Inter-Procedural Synchronization, inBlazy S, Jensen T, editorsStatic Analysis: 22nd International Symposium, SAS 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2015, pp 72–89.

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 The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E: Amazing Video Of A Mantis Shrimp Spearing A Fish In Slow Motion [Internet]. IFLScience 2014; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amazing-video-mantis-shrimp-spearing-fish-slow-motion-0/

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: Aviation Security: Efforts to Strengthen International Passenger Prescreening are Under Way, but Planning and Implementation Issues Remain. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Barajas D: The marginalization of Zitkala-Ša and Wendy Rose2010;

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

Greenhouse L: Justices Agree to Consider EBay Appeal in Patent Case. New York Times 2005; C9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	The American Journal of Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Am. J. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0002-953X
ISSN (online)	1535-7228
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health