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

Padma TV (2005). Rivalry and red tape. Nature 436:490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan W-B, Fan H (2014). Single-photon quantum router with multiple output ports. Sci Rep 4:4820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smilkov D, Hidalgo CA, Kocarev L (2014). Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Sci Rep 4:4795.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hankins TH, Kern JS, Weatherall JC, Eilek JA (2003). Nanosecond radio bursts from strong plasma turbulence in the Crab pulsar. Nature 422:141–143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loughran M (2010). Auditing for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cazenave T, Winands MHM, Iida H, editors (2014). Computer Games: Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2013, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. 408:. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Han L, Rossi L, Torsello A, Wilson RC, Hancock ER (2012). Information Theoretic Prototype Selection for Unattributed Graphs. In Gimel’farb G, Hancock E, Imiya A, Kuijper A, Kudo M, Omachi S, et al., editors. Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR&SPR 2012, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-9, 2012 Proceedings, p. 33–41. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew E (2014). No, You’re Not Entitled To Your Opinion. IFLScience [Internet]. IFLScienceAvailable from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/no-youre-not-entitled-your-opinion/.

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). International Aviation: Competition Issues in the U.S.-U.K. Market. 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

Ross TA (2008). The surgical technologist learning partnership: A comparison of factors in a preceptor relationship. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ.

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

Otis J (2017). Her Peers Made School Look Easy. With Hard Work, She’s Catching Up. New York TimesA17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Padma, 2005; Yan and Fan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yan and Fan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hankins et al., 2003)

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