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

Ebert D. Genomics. A genome for the environment. Science. 2011 Feb 4;331(6017):539–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jackson JB, Johnson KG. Paleoecology. Measuring past biodiversity. Science. 2001 Sep 28;293(5539):2401–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ng B, Cai W, Walsh K. The role of the SST-thermocline relationship in Indian Ocean Dipole skewness and its response to global warming. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 12;4:6034.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun Y, Zhou G, Gui T, Shimokado A, Nakanishi M, Oikawa K, et al. Elevated serum 1,25(OH)2-vitamin D3 level attenuates renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction in kl/kl mice. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 9;4:6563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson S, Tobias K. Atlas of ear diseases of the dog and cat. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

Pina M, Gontier N, editors. The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. X, 326 p. 18 illus., 11 illus. in color. (Interdisciplinary Evolution Research; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

Pehrson L. Significance of the Prohibition of Discrimination on the Grounds of Nationality. In: Pehrson L, Oxelheim L, Gustavsson S, editors. How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 43–60.

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 E. The Dark Side Of Coffee: An Unequal Social And Environmental Exchange [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dark-side-coffee-unequal-social-and-environmental-exchange/

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. ICBM Modernization: Availability Problems and Flight Test Delays in Peacekeeper Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-89-105.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zou X. Magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures on modified nanosphere templates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Jan 26;C28.

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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