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

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

Fuhrman, J.A., 2009. Microbial community structure and its functional implications. Nature 459, 193–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray, L.B., Gough, N.R., 2002. Orienteering strategies for a signaling maze. Science 296, 1632–1633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Junge, W., Sielaff, H., Engelbrecht, S., 2009. Torque generation and elastic power transmission in the rotary F(O)F(1)-ATPase. Nature 459, 364–370.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rawashdeh, O., de Borsetti, N.H., Roman, G., Cahill, G.M., 2007. Melatonin suppresses nighttime memory formation in zebrafish. Science 318, 1144–1146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandridis, A.K., Zapranis, A.D., 2014. Wavelet Neural Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Robinson, S., Sleight, S. (Eds.), 2016. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World, Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Buldú, J.M., Sevilla-Escoboza, R., Aguirre, J., Papo, D., Gutiérrez, R., 2016. Interconnecting Networks: The Role of Connector Links, in: Garas, A. (Ed.), Interconnected Networks, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 61–77.

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 Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. How To Cut Through When Talking To Anti-Vaxxers And Anti-Fluoriders [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-cut-through-when-talking-to-anti-vaxxers-and-anti-fluoriders/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Internet: Federal Web-based Complaint Handling (No. AIMD-00-238R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, A.A., 2009. A study of the attitudes and opinions of southwest Missouri educators regarding the value and outcome of the performance based teacher evaluation process (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Koblin, J., 2017. Grammy Awards Gain a Million More Viewers. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Fuhrman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Fuhrman, 2009; Ray and Gough, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ray and Gough, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Rawashdeh et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Asian J. Psychiatr.
ISSN (print)	1876-2018
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology