How to format your references using the Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry. 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 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

Lewis R. Genes versus cancer. Nature. 2007;446(7137):826-827.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menon S, Manning BD. Cell signalling: nutrient sensing lost in cancer. Nature. 2013;498(7455):444-445.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto-Kawai M, Carmack E, McLaughlin F. Nitrogen balance and Arctic throughflow. Nature. 2006;443(7107):43.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cooper A, Lalueza-Fox C, Anderson S, Rambaut A, Austin J, Ward R. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution. Nature. 2001;409(6821):704-707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt W. Optische Spektroskopie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2000.

An edited book

Blanchini F. Set-Theoretic Methods in Control. (Miani S, ed.). Birkhäuser; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Lees AW. Recent Advances and Prospects in Condition Monitoring. In: Sinha JK, ed. Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery: Proceedings of VETOMAC X 2014, Held at the University of Manchester, UK, September 9-11, 2014. Mechanisms and Machine Science. Springer International Publishing; 2015:51-63.

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 Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Simple But Mindblowing Helium Balloon Experiment. IFLScience. April 21, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/simple-mindblowing-helium-balloon-experiment/

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. Motor Carrier Safety: New Applicant Reviews Should Expand to Identify Freight Carriers Evading Detection. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rogers SL. Fear of Cancer and Theory of Planned Behavior as Predictors of Pap Screenings. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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

Tommasini A, Oestreich JR, da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM C, Allen D, Cooper M, Woolfe Z. For Classical Fans, Boxed Sets and Beyond. New York Times. November 24, 2016:C13.

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	Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry
ISSN (print)	2405-8017
Scope