How to format your references using the The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 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

Lewis SL. We must set planetary boundaries wisely. Nature. 2012 May 23;485(7399):417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurdon JB, Bourillot PY. Morphogen gradient interpretation. Nature. 2001 Oct 25;413(6858):797–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Averill C, Turner BL, Finzi AC. Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage. Nature. 2014 Jan 23;505(7484):543–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van Heijst JWJ, Gerlach C, Swart E, Sie D, Nunes-Alves C, Kerkhoven RM, et al. Recruitment of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in response to infection is markedly efficient. Science. 2009 Sep 4;325(5945):1265–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kadane JB, Schum DA. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997. (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics).

An edited book

Martínez-Avendaño RA. An Introduction to Operators on the Hardy-Hilbert Space. Rosenthal P, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. XII, 220 p. (Graduate Texts in Mathematics; vol. 237).

A chapter in an edited book

Vail A. Protestant Nonconformists: Providers of Educational and Social Services. In: Ackers P, Reid AJ, editors. Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 121–50.

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 International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. How To Know You’re In A Long-Term Relationship, According To Psychology. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-know-youre-in-a-long-term-relationship-according-to-psychology/

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. Reclaim for Mileage and Relocation Expenses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 May. Report No.: B-177671.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boyle CN. Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Bernard TS. Reading, Writing and Rip-Offs. New York Times. 2016 Oct 21;BU1.

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 International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychiatry Med.
ISSN (print)	0091-2174
ISSN (online)	1541-3527
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health