How to format your references using the The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry citation style

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

Romani RW. Astronomy. Pulsar beams--big and bright. Science. 2014;344(6180):159-160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Entcheva E, Williams JC. Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baugh LR, Demodena J, Sternberg PW. RNA Pol II accumulates at promoters of growth genes during developmental arrest. Science. 2009;324(5923):92-94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rucker R, Storms D, Sheets A, Tchaparian E, Fascetti A. Biochemistry: is pyrroloquinoline quinone a vitamin? Nature. 2005;433(7025):E10-1; discussion E11-2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lagraña F. E-Mail and Behavioral Changes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Maz’ya V. Sharp Real-Part Theorems: A Unified Approach. Vol 1903. (Kresin G, ed.). Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdul-Latip SF, Reyhanitabar MR, Susilo W, Seberry J. On the Security of NOEKEON against Side Channel Cube Attacks. In: Kwak J, Deng RH, Won Y, Wang G, eds. Information Security, Practice and Experience: 6th International Conference, ISPEC 2010, Seoul, Korea, May 12-13, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2010:45-55.

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 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Treatment Effectively Reverses Tooth Decay, Could Make Dentist’s Drills Obsolete. IFLScience. June 17, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-treatment-effectively-reverses-tooth-decay-could-make-dentists-drills/

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. USDA Proposal To Acquire Automatic Data Processing Equipment. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rahimi RM. Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Crow K. Art Is Long, Nails Are Longer. New York Times. March 24, 2002:146.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0160-6689
ISSN (online)	1555-2101
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health