How to format your references using the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (JCAP). 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

Gadagkar R. Evolution. Sex...Only If Really Necessary in a Feminine Monarchy. Science 2004;306(5702):1694–1695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enemark EJ and Joshua-Tor L. Mechanism of DNA Translocation in a Replicative Hexameric Helicase. Nature 2006;442(7100):270–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Y-C, Song S-W and Liu W-M. The Confinement Induced Resonance in Spin-Orbit Coupled Cold Atoms with Raman Coupling. Sci Rep 2014;4:4992.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Venter O, Laurance WF, Iwamura T, et al. Harnessing Carbon Payments to Protect Biodiversity. Science 2009;326(5958):1368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang B and Qiu D. Sneak Circuits of Power Electronic Converters. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd: Singapore; 2014.

An edited book

Finn A, Curtis N and Pollard AJ, (eds). Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children VI. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer: New York, NY; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Hernández-Salmerón M and Romero-Ávila D. PANIC Approach. In: Convergence in Output and Its Sources Among Industrialised Countries: A Cross-Country Time-Series Perspective. (Romero-Ávila D. ed). SpringerBriefs in Economics Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 45–51.

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 Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Theory Suggests Parallel Universes Interact With And Affect Our Own Universe. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicist-predicts-parallel-universes-overlap-and-interact/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. District of Columbia Public Schools: Availability of Funds and the Cost of FY 1997 Roof Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Papp TM. CrashApp^TM–Concurrent Multiple Stakeholder Evaluation of a DSR Artefact. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida: Tampa, FL; 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

Qiu L. An Adoring Crowd, And a Dozen Things That Aren’t True. New York Times 2017;A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gadagkar, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Enemark and Joshua-Tor, 2006; Gadagkar, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Enemark and Joshua-Tor, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Venter et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	J. Child Adolesc. Psychopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1044-5463
ISSN (online)	1557-8992
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health