How to format your references using the The International Journal of Psychoanalysis citation style

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

Gregory CD (2014). Cell biology: The disassembly of death. Nature 507:312–313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramsey JM, Chester FM (2004). Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture. Nature 428:63–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heymann DL, Sutter RW, Aylward RB (2005). A global call for new polio vaccines. Nature 434:699–700.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li M, Guan S, Wu C, Gong X, Li K, Wu J, et al. (2014). From sparse to dense and from assortative to disassortative in online social networks. Sci Rep 4:4861.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malcolm D (2012). The British and Irish Short Story Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gravemeijer K (2016). Measurement and Geometry in Upper Primary School. In Figueiredo N, Galen F van, Keijzer R, Munk F, editors. SensePublishers: Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Halder P (2015). An Overview of Science Teachers’ Knowledge of Bioenergy and the Need for Future Research: A Case from India. In Dincer I, Colpan CO, Kizilkan O, Ezan MA, editors. Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 2: Novel Systems and Applications, p. 59–64. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

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 Psychoanalysis.

Blog post

Fang J (2014). Herpes Infected Our Ancestors Before They Were Human. IFLScience [Internet]. IFLScienceAvailable from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/herpes-infected-our-ancestors-they-were-human/.

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 (1997). Hispanic Employment: Best Practices Used by Selected Agencies and Companies. 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

Bowmar JS (2012). Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience in the United States, One Disaster at a Time: Fostering Green Building Principles through Disaster Assistance. George Washington University: Washington, DC.

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

Rosenberg M, Risen J (2017). Trump’s Intelligence Nominee Gets an Early Lesson in Managing the White House. New York TimesA15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gregory, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gregory, 2014; Ramsey and Chester, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ramsey and Chester, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Abbreviation	Int. J. Psychoanal.
ISSN (print)	0020-7578
ISSN (online)	1745-8315
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology