How to format your references using the Comprehensive Psychiatry citation style

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

Sawyers C. Targeted cancer therapy. Nature 2004;432:294–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kramer GJ, Haigh M. No quick switch to low-carbon energy. Nature 2009;462:568–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Piana S, Reyhani M, Gale JD. Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution. Nature 2005;438:70–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kiselev SI, Sankey JC, Krivorotov IN, Emley NC, Schoelkopf RJ, Buhrman RA, et al. Microwave oscillations of a nanomagnet driven by a spin-polarized current. Nature 2003;425:380–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nguyen T. Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Petters AO. An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications: Understanding and Building Financial Intuition. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Solesvik MZ. The Use of 3D Optical Measurement Systems in Collaborative Ship Design. In: Luo Y, editor. Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 8th International Conference, CDVE 2011, Hong Kong, China, September 11-14, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 30–6.

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 Comprehensive Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. New Galaxy Discovered Close To Our Own. IFLScience 2014.

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. Computer Matching Act: OMB and Selected Agencies Need to Ensure Consistent Implementation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Williams VD. Leadership behavior practice patterns’ relationship to employee work engagement in a nonprofit that supports the homeless. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Feeney K. More Than Moussaka. New York Times 2010:NJ10.

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	Comprehensive Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Compr. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0010-440X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology