How to format your references using the The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 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

Bocquet-Appel J-P. 2011. When the world’s population took off: the springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Science 333:560–561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beller S, Bender A. 2008. The limits of counting: numerical cognition between evolution and culture. Science 319:213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larsen RE, Glover WJ, Schwartz BJ. 2010. Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity? Science 329:65–69.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gao H, Yang Z, Zhang S, Cao S, Shen S, Pang Z, et al. 2013. Ligand modified nanoparticles increases cell uptake, alters endocytosis and elevates glioma distribution and internalization. Sci. Rep. 3:2534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bishop CA. 2015. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee S, Cho H, Yoon K-J, Lee J eds. 2013. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin ME, Tolin DF. 2007. Doing the Detective Work: In: Tolin DF, editor. Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 39–50.

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 World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Meditation may Alter Male and Female Brains Differently. IFLScience.

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. SSA Computers: Long-Range Vision Needed to Guide Future Systems Modernization Efforts. Washington, DC: 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

Parker JS. 2006. Land Tenure in the Sugar Creek Watershed: A Contextual Analysis of Land Tenure and Social Networks, Intergenerational Farm Succession, and Conservation Use Among Farmers of Wayne County, Ohio.

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

Saslow L. 2006. Suffolk and Nassau Fight Voting Machine Change. New York Times:14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bocquet-Appel 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Beller and Bender 2008; Bocquet-Appel 2011).

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

Two authors: (Beller and Bender 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
Abbreviation	World J. Biol. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	1562-2975
ISSN (online)	1814-1412
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry

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