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

Russo E. New lease of life for tropical medicine. Nature. 2004 Apr 29;428(6986):966–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henney A, Superti-Furga G. A network solution. Nature. 2008 Oct 9;455(7214):730–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo M, Fee MS, Katz LC. Encoding pheromonal signals in the accessory olfactory bulb of behaving mice. Science. 2003 Feb 21;299(5610):1196–201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pilania G, Thijsse BJ, Hoagland RG, Lazić I, Valone SM, Liu XY. Revisiting the Al/Al₂O₃ interface: coherent interfaces and misfit accommodation. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 27;4:4485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang B, Wang X. Chaos Analysis and Chaotic EMI Suppression of DC-DC Converters. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Chen PP, Wong LY, editors. Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning: Next Generation Learning-Base System Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. VIII, 227 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4512).

A chapter in an edited book

Hwang YS, Kearney P. Study Two: Mindfulness Intervention for Children. In: Kearney P, editor. A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: New Directions in Research and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 93–125. (Mindfulness in Behavioral Health).

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA Study Reveals How Mars Turned From A Habitable World Into A Dead Planet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-atmosphere-study-reveals-how-it-turned-habitable-world-dead-planet0/

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. Consolidated Student Loans: Borrowers Benefit but Costs to Them and the Government Grow. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: HRD-90-8.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson A. Instructional Practices in Physical Education Programs for Students with Disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2015.

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

Barron J. Robert A. Wilson, 94; Ran a Haven for Poets. New York Times. 2016 Dec 7;D7.

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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