How to format your references using the Biological Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological 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. Sibum HO (2004): Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics? Science 306: 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Burke A, Robinson LF (2012): The Southern Ocean’s role in carbon exchange during the last deglaciation. Science 335: 557–561.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Green ED, Guyer MS, National Human Genome Research Institute (2011): Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside. Nature 470: 204–213.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. Zhang Y, Aziz-Alaoui MA, Bertelle C, Guan J (2014): Local Nash equilibrium in social networks. Sci Rep 4: 6224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS (2014): Insect Histology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

1. Loeb PA, Wolff MPH (Eds.) (2015): Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician, 2nd ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chatterjee S (2016): India’s Evolving Food and Nutrition Scenario: An Overview. In: Venkateswar S, Bandyopadhyay S, editors. Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India. Singapore: Springer, pp 79–106.

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 Biological Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Davis J (2016, December 2): Doctors Warn Of Drinking Too Much Water When Ill. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-warn-of-drinking-too-much-water-when-ill/

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 (2000): Electronic Government: Government Paperwork Elimination Act Presents Challenges for Agencies. 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

1. Dobbs J (2017): The Potential Use of PEI Modified Biochar for Different Environmental Applications. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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. Murphy MJO (2015, January 9): Friday File. New York Times C31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (2,4,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Biol. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0006-3223
ISSN (online)	1873-2402
Scope	Biological Psychiatry