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

Hoag H. Testing new ground. Nature 2004; 429: 682–683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piou T, Rovis T. Rhodium-catalysed syn-carboamination of alkenes via a transient directing group. Nature 2015; 527: 86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler UK, Bogdanov AN, Pfleiderer C. Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature 2006; 442: 797–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen T-G, Barton LM, Lin Y, Tsien J, Kossler D, Bastida I et al. Building C(sp3)-rich complexity by combining cycloaddition and C-C cross-coupling reactions. Nature 2018; 560: 350–354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H, Couchman G. Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

Jordan R (ed.). Surface-Initiated Polymerization II. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H. About META-NET. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (eds). The English Language in the Digital Age. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp 33–33.

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

Hale T. The White Sand Dunes Of New Mexico Are A Weird And Wonderful Place. 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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Business Continuity and Contingency Plans and Day One Strategies. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin H-C. Depression screening in ambulatory care. 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. His Hipness, John G. Roberts. New York Times. 2006; : WK7.

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