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

Dohlman HG. Diminishing returns. Nature. 2002 Aug 8;418(6898):591.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fasullo JT, Trenberth KE. A less cloudy future: the role of subtropical subsidence in climate sensitivity. Science. 2012 Nov 9;338(6108):792–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storch D, Keil P, Jetz W. Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature. 2012 Aug 2;488(7409):78–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hester JJ, Desch SJ, Healy KR, Leshin LA. Astronomy. The cradle of the solar system. Science. 2004 May 21;304(5674):1116–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sierra MA, de la Torre MC, Cossío FP. More Dead Ends and Detours. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Chiu MH, Gilmer PJ, Treagust DF, editors. Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011. VIII, 253 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cavapozzi D, Fiume A, Garrouste C, Weber G. Human Capital Accumulation and Investment Behaviour. In: Börsch-Supan A, Brandt M, Hank K, Schröder M, editors. The Individual and the Welfare State: Life Histories in Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 45–57.

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. How Chameleons Adapted To A Tree-Climbing Lifestyle.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Electric Power Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Apr. Report No.: AIMD-99-114.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Binkley PM. Relationship of Graduate Student Involvement to Graduate Alumni Donor Behavior [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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

Erlanger S, Kanter J. Starting British Election Campaign, May Warns of E.U. Meddling. New York Times. 2017 May 3;A6.

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