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

Richardson DJ. Applied physics. Filling the light pipe. Science. 2010;330(6002):327-328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Druckman JN, Lupia A. Social science. Experimenting with politics. Science. 2012;335(6073):1177-1179.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lappala A, Zaccone A, Terentjev EM. Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Feng L, Zhao Y, Zhao H, Shao Z. Effects of storage time and temperature on coagulation tests and factors in fresh plasma. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides CA. Discrete Q-Distributions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Nath V. Autonomous Military Robotics. (Levinson SE, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Derwing TM, Fraser H, Kang O, Thomson RI. L2 Accent and Ethics: Issues that Merit Attention. In: Mahboob A, Barratt L, eds. Englishes in Multilingual Contexts: Language Variation and Education. Multilingual Education. Springer Netherlands; 2014:63-80.

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 D. Why Are There So Many Species Of Bugs, But So Few Species Of Human? 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. Amtrak Management: Systemic Problems Require Actions to Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Accountability. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bortle CD. The Role of Mnemonic Acronyms in Clinical Emergency Medicine: A Grounded Theory Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

George R. Flying the Flag, Fleeing The State. New York Times. April 25, 2011:A25.

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