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

Buckling A. Epidemiology. Keep it local. Science. 2007 Mar 2;315(5816):1227–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klose R, Bird A. Molecular biology. MeCP2 repression goes nonglobal. Science. 2003 Oct 31;302(5646):793–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rau AV, Dunningham JA, Burnett K. Measurement-induced relative-position localization through entanglement. Science. 2003 Aug 22;301(5636):1081–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang S, Tu J, Jia Z, Lu Z. High order intra-strand partial symmetry increases with organismal complexity in animal evolution. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 29;4:6400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers EF Jr. Aquinas and the Supreme Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Ferracchiati FC. Windows Phone Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Garofalo E, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011. XXIV, 492 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebbinghaus HD. A Final Word. In: Peckhaus V, editor. Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 273–6.

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

Luntz S. Scientists Produce Most Accurate Map Ever Of Mammoth Ranges [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mammoth-range-mammoth-revealed/

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. Telecommunications: FTS 2000 Cost Comparison. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: AIMD-96-95.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manandhar R. Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois 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

Kelly M. Summit in Moscow: Comes the Next Generation; With Yeltsin Overture, Clinton Backs Early Meeting. New York Times. 1993 Jan 4;A9.

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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