How to format your references using the The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. 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

Walt, D. R. (2005). Chemistry. Miniature analytical methods for medical diagnostics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5719), 217–219.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicer, G. J., & Yu, Y.-T. N. (2003). Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature, 425(6953), 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corominas-Murtra, B., Fortuny, J., & Solé, R. V. (2014). Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication. Scientific Reports, 4, 4587.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Efthimiopoulos, I., Zhang, J., Kucway, M., Park, C., Ewing, R. C., & Wang, Y. (2013). Sb₂Se₃ under pressure. Scientific Reports, 3, 2665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ekenna, O. (2016). Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice: Obtaining a good history from the patient remains the cornerstone of an accurate clinical diagnosis: Lessons learned in many years of clinical practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Faller, R., Longo, M. L., Risbud, S. H., & Jue, T. (Eds.). (2009). Biomembrane Frontiers: Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life (1st ed.). Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Arthurs, O. J., & Sebire, N. J. (2015). Perinatal Imaging. In T. Y. Khong & R. D. G. Malcomson (Eds.), Keeling’s Fetal and Neonatal Pathology (pp. 123–140). Springer International Publishing.

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 Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 4). Study Sheds Light On Violent Asteroid Crash That Caused Mysterious ‘Crater Rings’ On The Moon. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/study-sheds-light-on-violent-asteroid-crash-that-caused-mysterious-crater-rings-on-the-moon/

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. (1991). Department of Education: Monitoring of State Formula Grants by Office of Special Education Programs (HRD-91-91FS). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gross, J. (2010). High-performance dram system design constraints and considerations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Chapman, M. M., & Vlasic, B. (2012, July 31). Strong Domestic Sales Help Lift Chrysler’s Results. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Walt, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Velicer & Yu, 2003; Walt, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Velicer & Yu, 2003)
Three authors: (Corominas-Murtra et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Efthimiopoulos et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review
ISSN (print)	0106-2301
ISSN (online)	1600-0803
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology

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