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

Koen D. Introductory matters. Nature. 2004;429(6991):584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Niessing J, Friedrich RW. Olfactory pattern classification by discrete neuronal network states. Nature. 2010;465(7294):47-52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobson MZ, Colella WG, Golden DM. Cleaning the air and improving health with hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Science. 2005;308(5730):1901-1905.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lefèvre F, Bertaux JL, Clancy RT, et al. Heterogeneous chemistry in the atmosphere of Mars. Nature. 2008;454(7207):971-975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Block T, Eggert H, Kauschke W. Lager Im Bauwesen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Burkov VN. Control Mechanisms for Ecological-Economic Systems. Vol 10. (Novikov DA, Shchepkin AV, eds.). Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Brokate M, Kersting G. Integrable Functions. In: Kersting G, ed. Measure and Integral. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing; 2015:41-52.

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

Hale T. Catastrophic Antelope Death Rates Are Higher And More Mysterious Than Previously Thought. IFLScience.

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. Navigation Planning: Need for a New Direction. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ennaco WA. Mastering Morphosyntax: A Pre-Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of a Parent-Training Program for Preschoolaged Children with Specific Language Impairment. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Gustines GG. Leaping From Marvel to DC in a Single Bound. New York Times. June 23, 2014:C3.

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