How to format your references using the European Psychiatry citation style

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

Beal MF. Parkinson’s disease: a model dilemma. Nature 2010;466:S8-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Blondin JM, Mezzacappa A. Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae. Nature 2007;445:58–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Leman L, Orgel L, Ghadiri MR. Carbonyl sulfide-mediated prebiotic formation of peptides. Science 2004;306:283–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kondo T, Wakayama T, Naiki T, Matsumoto K, Sugimoto K. Recruitment of Mec1 and Ddc1 checkpoint proteins to double-strand breaks through distinct mechanisms. Science 2001;294:867–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saint-Dizier P. Musical Rhetoric. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Lloyd CE, Pouwer F, Hermanns N, editors. Screening for Depression and Other Psychological Problems in Diabetes: A Practical Guide. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Midthun KT, Tomasgard A. Analysis of Natural Gas Value Chains. In: Bjørndal E, Bjørndal M, Pardalos PM, Rönnqvist M, editors. Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 71–82.

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 European Psychiatry.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. NASA Spies Jack-o’-Lantern Face In The Sun. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-spies-jack-o-lantern-sun/ (accessed October 30, 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. Social Security: Leadership Structure for an Independent Social Security Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zelaya GS. Hopelessness and diabetes: Do Hispanic diabetic patients feel less hopeless eating fruits, vegetables and exercising regularly? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Duerden J. Trendy Shanghai District Has a Team With Glitter of Its Own. New York Times 2017:B11.

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	European Psychiatry
Abbreviation	Eur. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0924-9338
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health