How to format your references using the Journal of Affective Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Affective Disorders. 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

Kahan, D.M., 2013. Social science. A risky science communication environment for vaccines. Science 342, 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lefkowitz, R.J., Shenoy, S.K., 2005. Transduction of receptor signals by beta-arrestins. Science 308, 512–517.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaydos, L.J., Wang, W., Strome, S., 2014. Gene repression. H3K27me and PRC2 transmit a memory of repression across generations and during development. Science 345, 1515–1518.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winkler, W.C., Nahvi, A., Roth, A., Collins, J.A., Breaker, R.R., 2004. Control of gene expression by a natural metabolite-responsive ribozyme. Nature 428, 281–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garde, F., Aelenei, D., Aelenei, L., Scognamiglio, A., Ayoub, J., 2017. Solution Sets for Net-Zero Energy Buildings. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kirylo, J.D. (Ed.), 2013. A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know, Transgressions, Cultural Studies and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

de Jong, M.T., Verhallen, M.J.A.J., 2013. Video Storybooks: A Way to Empower Children at Risk, in: Shamir, A., Korat, O. (Eds.), Technology as a Support for Literacy Achievements for Children at Risk. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 33–45.

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 Journal of Affective Disorders.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Muscle Engineered To Respond To Light [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Federal Highway Programs: Status of Federal Highway Programs in the Absence of Reauthorization (No. T-RCED-98-38). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cao, Y., 2006. Morphological and Functional Characterization of the Neurotransmitter GABA in Adult Rat Taste Buds (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Pilon, M., 2013. A.B.A., or Something Unlike It. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kahan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kahan, 2013; Lefkowitz and Shenoy, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lefkowitz and Shenoy, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Winkler et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Affective Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Affect. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0165-0327
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology