How to format your references using the The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Herrmann WA: Obituary: Ernst Otto Fischer (1918-2007). Nature 2007; 449:156

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheney RE, Rodriguez OC: Cell biology. A switch to release the motor. Science 2001; 293:1263–1264

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarrete A, van Schaik CP, Isler K: Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature 2011; 480:91–93

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li X, Mao Z, Wu M, et al.: Rescuing infertility of Pick1 knockout mice by generating testis-specific transgenic mice via testicular infection. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3:2842

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weston P: Bioinformatics Software Engineering, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006

An edited book

Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I (eds): Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2007

A chapter in an edited book

Dvorkin EN, Toscano RG: Collapse and Post-Collapse Behavior of Deepwater Pipelines with Buckle Arrestors: Cross-Over Mechanisms, in Finite Element Analysis of the Collapse and Post-Collapse Behavior of Steel Pipes: Applications to the Oil Industry, edited by Toscano RG. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2013, pp 71–86

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 Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Blog post

Hamilton K: Psychologist On Dating: There Are No Rules Of Attraction When It Comes To Meeting Your Match [Internet]. IFLScience 2016; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychologist-on-dating-there-are-no-rules-of-attraction-when-it-comes-to-meeting-your-match/

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: Title I: Education Needs to Monitor States’ Scoring of Assessments, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin Y-S: Virtuoso piano transcriptions of Stephen Hough and Marc-André Hamelin: Lisztian tradition in the twenty-first century2009;

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

Zuckert B: Desperately Searching for Track 16. New York Times 2016; A20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Abbreviation	J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0895-0172
ISSN (online)	1545-7222
Scope	Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health