How to format your references using the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 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

Watanabe M. Immunology goes global. Nature. 2005 Jun 30;435(7046):1282–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn NG, Resing KA. Cell biology. Lessons in rational drug design for protein kinases. Science. 2005 May 27;308(5726):1266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss IZ, Zhai Y, Hudson JL. Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science. 2002 May 31;296(5573):1676–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Herkenhoff KE, Byrne S, Russell PS, Fishbaugh KE, McEwen AS. Meter-scale morphology of the north polar region of Mars. Science. 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1711–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelly VA. ADDICTION in the Family: What Every Counselor Needs to Know. Alexandria, USA: American Counseling Association; 2015.

An edited book

Gilroy SW, Harrison MD, editors. Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 12th International Workshop, DSVIS 2005, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 13-15, 2005. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XII, 276 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3941).

A chapter in an edited book

Duong TH, Nguyen NT, Kozierkiewicz-Hetmańska A, Jo GS. Fuzzy Ontology Integration Using Consensus to Solve Conflicts on Concept Level. In: Nguyen NT, Trawiński B, Jung JJ, editors. New Challenges for Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 33–42. (Kacprzyk J, editor. Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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 Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine.

Blog post

Hale T. A Dodo Skeleton Is Going Up For Sale For The First Time In 100 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal Facilities: Alternative Land Uses Could Save Water at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Dec. Report No.: RCED/NSIAD-00-42.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quackenbush CM. The Imaginal Stone: Stories of self and world [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2010.

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

Gustines GG. Don’t Blame These Heroes for Slumping Sales. New York Times. 2017 Apr 7;C1.

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	Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine
Abbreviation	Ir. J. Psychol. Med.
ISSN (print)	0790-9667
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology