How to format your references using the Translational Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational 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

Dolgin E. Therapeutics: Negative feedback. Nature 2014; 508: S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray RA, Wikswo JP. Cardiovascular disease: several small shocks beat one big one. Nature 2011; 475: 181–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labrosse S, Hernlund JW, Coltice N. A crystallizing dense magma ocean at the base of the Earth’s mantle. Nature 2007; 450: 866–869.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Iwamoto N, Umeda H, Tominaga N, Nomoto K, Maeda K. The first chemical enrichment in the universe and the formation of hyper metal-poor stars. Science 2005; 309: 451–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tunley M, Whittaker A, Gee J, Button M. The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Aggarwal CC (ed.). Managing and Mining Sensor Data. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Huston DL, Champion DC, Cassidy KF. Tectonic controls on the endowment of Archean cratons in VHMS deposits: Evidence from PB and Nd isotopes. In: Mao J, Bierlein FP (eds). Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing, China, 18–21 August 2005. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005, pp 15–18.

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 Translational Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew D. Watch A Tapir Scratch An Itch With His Enormous, Prehensile Penis. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-tapir-scratches-itch/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. The San Francisco Regional Office, 1954-1987: Interview With Harold J. D’Ambrogia, Kenneth A. Pollock, Richard A. Sheldon, and Charles F. Vincent. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Potter RH. Diffusion of oxygen and lithium isotopes at a contact between the Bushveld Complex and metasedimentary rock: Implications for the timescale of Phepane Dome diapirism. 2009.

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

Kolomatsky M. How Much Space for the Money? New York Times. 2017; : RE2.

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	Translational Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Transl. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	2158-3188
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience