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

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

Goldston D. Back to school. Nature 2007; 446: 714.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scanlon JD, Lee MS. The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes. Nature 2000; 403: 416–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen Y, Buick R, Canfield DE. Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era. Nature 2001; 410: 77–81.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Mitchell CJ, Horányi M, Havnes O, Porco CC. Saturn’s spokes: lost and found. Science 2006; 311: 1587–1589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D. The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing

An edited book

Ehrenfeld JM, Urman RD, Segal S (eds). Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Sebastião D, Martijn Kuipers BW, Correia LM. Exposure Assessment in Heterogeneous Networks Accounting for up- and Downlinks. In: Agüero R, Zinner T, García-Lozano M, Wenning B-L, Timm-Giel A, editors. Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015: 43–54.

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 World Journal of Psychiatry.

Blog post

Davis J. Cats Responsible For Driving Many Species To Extinction. IFLScience. 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-responsible-for-driving-many-species-to-extinction/

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. Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Previous Research Could Benefit FreedomCAR Initiative. 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

Truong T. Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water. 2012.

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

Wasik JF. Helping Hand for Start-Ups From Those Who’ve Been There Before. New York Times. 2016; : B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	World Journal of Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	2220-3206
Scope