How to format your references using the The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 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

Walsh CT (2004) Polyketide and nonribosomal peptide antibiotics: modularity and versatility. Science 303: 1805–1810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann HM, Mukhopadhyay S (2009) Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle. Nature 459: 560–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein M, Rabinovitch PS, Martin GM (2015) Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine. Science 350: 1191–1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Athanasiou M, Smith R, Liu B, Wang T (2014) Room temperature continuous-wave green lasing from an InGaN microdisk on silicon. Sci Rep 4: 7250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saghyan AS, Langer P (2016) Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Tomar GS, Chang R-S, Gervasi O, Kim T-H, Bandyopadhyay SK (Eds) (2010) Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology: Second International Conference, AST 2010, Miyazaki, Japan, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kunihiro N (2015) An Improved Attack for Recovering Noisy RSA Secret Keys and Its Countermeasure. In M-H Au, A Miyaji (Eds), Provable Security: 9th International Conference, ProvSec 2015, Kanazawa, Japan, November 24-26, 2015, Proceedings (pp 61–81). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Nervous and Mental Disease.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Astonishing 99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Preserved In Amber. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/astonishing-99millionyearold-bird-wings-found-preserved-in-amber/ (last accessed 30 October 2018).

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 (2016) Environmental Satellites: NOAA Needs to Ensure Its Timelines Are Accurate, Clear, and Fully Documented ( No. GAO-16-767). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scaringe JG (2010) An Investigation into the Faculty Development Practices in Chiropractic Education Programs (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

de la MERCED MJ (2017) Unity Technologies Agrees to Funding. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay, 2009; Walsh, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Athanasiou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
ISSN (print)	0022-3018
ISSN (online)	1539-736X
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