How to format your references using the Academic Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academic 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Christensen PR. Formation of recent martian gullies through melting of extensive water-rich snow deposits. Nature. 2003;422:45–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Butz WP, Torrey BB. Some frontiers in social science. Science. 2006;312:1898–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Galbraith CG, Yamada KM, Galbraith JA. Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites. Science. 2007;315:992–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wijnands R, Van Der Klis M, Homan J, Chakrabarty D, Markwardt CB, Morgan EH. Quasi-periodic X-ray brightness fluctuations in an accreting millisecond pulsar. Nature. 2003;424:44–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Demand NH. The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Cartier P. Freedom in Mathematics. Dhombres J, Heinzmann G, Villani C, editors. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Delport W, Olivier MS. Cloud Separation: Stuck Inside the Cloud. In: Fischer-Hübner S, Katsikas S, Quirchmayr G, editors. Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 9th International Conference, TrustBus 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-7, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 36–49.

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 Academic Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Trinity College Create Worlds Smallest Shamrock [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/trinity-college-create-worlds-smallest-shamrock/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. P.L. 480 Title I Transportation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: T-NSIAD-90-8.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yildiz S. Performance analysis of space-time trellis coded MIMO-OFDM systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

1. Urbina I. Rising Seas Turn Coastal Houses Into a Gamble. New York Times. 2016 Nov 24;A1.

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	Academic Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Acad. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	1042-9670
ISSN (online)	1545-7230
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Education