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

May M (2014). Antibiotics. Nature 509:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beninger RJ, Quinsey VL (2006). Animal behaviour: chimpanzee choice and prosociality. Nature 440:E6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ward CV, Kimbel WH, Johanson DC (2011). Complete fourth metatarsal and arches in the foot of Australopithecus afarensis. Science 331:750–753.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Guo Q, Kelt DA, Sun Z, Liu H, Hu L, Ren H, et al. (2013). Global variation in elevational diversity patterns. Sci Rep 3:3007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shamah S (2004). A Currency Options Primer. John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK.

An edited book

D’Alessandro C (2016). Cities and Spaces of Leadership: A Geographical Perspective. In Léautier F, editor. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mora R, Pedrotti L, Tuvo G, Gili S (2006). Diagnosis. In Mora R, editor. Nonunion of the Long Bones: Diagnosis and treatment with compression-distraction techniques, p. 41–46. Springer: Milano.

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

O`Callaghan J (2017). You Can Now Buy Tesla’s Solar Roof Tiles (If You’re Very Rich). IFLScience [Internet]. IFLScienceAvailable from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-can-now-buy-teslas-solar-roof-tiles-if-youre-very-rich/.

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 (2005). Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on the Federal Communications Commission’s Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Process. 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

Kurulugama RT (2009). Overtone mobility spectrometry. Indiana University: Bloomington, IN.

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

Feeney K (2009). ‘The Way It’s Done in Japan.’ New York TimesNJ15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Beninger and Quinsey, 2006; May, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Beninger and Quinsey, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2013)

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