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

Mervis J. NSF IN FLUX: NSF Searches for Right Way to Help Women. Science. 2000 Jul 21;289(5478):379–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim N, Grey CP. Probing oxygen motion in disordered anionic conductors with 17O and 51V MAS NMR spectroscopy. Science. 2002 Aug 23;297(5585):1317–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi Y, Tyson GW, DeLong EF. Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column. Nature. 2009 May 14;459(7244):266–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bank S, Jana P, Maiti S, Guha S, Sinha AK. Dermcidin isoform-2 induced nullification of the effect of acetyl salicylic acid in platelet aggregation in acute myocardial infarction. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 24;4:5804.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry M. Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Gahtan V, Costanza MJ, editors. Essentials of Vascular Surgery for the General Surgeon. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. XIII, 351 p. 190 illus., 90 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Furman JE. Occupational Regulation. In: Lessenger JE, editor. Agricultural Medicine: A Practical Guide. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. p. 35–41.

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. Stories Of Vaccine-Related Harms Are Influential, Even When People Don’t Believe Them. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Jul. Report No.: GAO-02-347T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bakirci A. Proteomic analysis of hepatocyte proteins in response to in vivo iron overload [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Quain JR. The Light-Sensing Technology Carmakers Are Clamoring For. New York Times. 2017 May 25;B5.

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
Scope

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