How to format your references using the World Psychiatry citation style

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

Oullier O. Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans. Nature. 2012;483(7387):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore MJ, Early GA. Cumulative sperm whale bone damage and the bends. Science. 2004;306(5705):2215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Monje ML, Toda H, Palmer TD. Inflammatory blockade restores adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Science. 2003;302(5651):1760-1765.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fleury V, Watters WA, Allam L, Devers T. Rapid electroplating of insulators. Nature. 2002;416(6882):716-719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka HJ. Transitions in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Ma M, Fradinho Oliveira M, Madeiras Pereira J, eds. Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings. Vol 6944. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Paireekreng W, Wong KW, Fung CC. Cluster Analysis for Personalised Mobile Entertainment Content. In: Nakatsu R, Tosa N, Naghdy F, Wong KW, Codognet P, eds. Cultural Computing: Second IFIP TC 14 Entertainment Computing Symposium, ECS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer; 2010:36-45.

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 Psychiatry.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Global Warming To Expose More People To Zika-Spreading Mosquito Aedes Aegypti. 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. Small Business Administration: Planning for Loan Monitoring System Has Many Positive Features But Still Carries Implementation Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teague HL. A Mixed Methods Study of Online Course Facilitators’ Perceptions of Mobile Technology, Design, and TPaCK Affordances. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Cooper M. Alexei Ratmansky Plans New ‘Harlequinade.’ New York Times. May 22, 2017:C3.

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	World Psychiatry
Abbreviation	World Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	1723-8617
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Phychiatric Mental Health