How to format your references using the The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. 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

Putnis A. Materials science. Why mineral interfaces matter. Science. 2014 Mar 28;343(6178):1441–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

True HL, Lindquist SL. A yeast prion provides a mechanism for genetic variation and phenotypic diversity. Nature. 2000 Sep 28;407(6803):477–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grutzendler J, Kasthuri N, Gan WB. Long-term dendritic spine stability in the adult cortex. Nature. 2002;420(6917):812–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ilani S, Martin J, Teitelbaum E, Smet JH, Mahalu D, Umansky V, et al. The microscopic nature of localization in the quantum Hall effect. Nature. 2004 Jan 22;427(6972):328–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bar-Eli M, Plessner H, Raab M. Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Valavanis KP, editor. Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. XXIV, 544 p. (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering; vol. 33).

A chapter in an edited book

Hasselbalch J, Costa N, Blecken A. Investigating the Barriers to Sustainable Procurement in the United Nations. In: Klumpp M, Leeuw S de, Regattieri A, Souza R de, editors. Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 67–86. (Lecture Notes in Logistics).

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 Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew D. Investing In Science Can Help Put Food On Africa’s Plates [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/investing-in-science-can-help-put-food-on-africas-plates/

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. Intellectual Property: Patent Examination and Copyright Office Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Sep. Report No.: T-RCED/GGD-96-230.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wonnacott CJ. Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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

Eligon J, Cooper M. Blasts at Boston Marathon Kill 3 and Injure 100. New York Times. 2013 Apr 15;A1.

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 Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders
Abbreviation	Prim. Care Companion CNS Disord.
ISSN (print)	2155-7772
ISSN (online)	2155-7780
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