How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Psychiatry citation style

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

1. Guthrie RD. New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions. Nature. 2006;441:207–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rosenfeld D, Woodley WL. Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 degrees C. Nature. 2000;405:440–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lekic V, French SW, Fischer KM. Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California. Science. 2011;334:783–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Demarest SJ, Martinez-Yamout M, Chung J, Chen H, Xu W, Dyson HJ, et al. Mutual synergistic folding in recruitment of CBP/p300 by p160 nuclear receptor coactivators. Nature. 2002;415:549–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Delgado RL-C, Araki M. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Zgrzywa A, Choroś K, Siemiński A, editors. New Research in Multimedia and Internet Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kristiansen E, Pries-Heje J, Baskerville RL. Designing Scientific Creativity. In: Commisso TH, Nørbjerg J, Pries-Heje J, editors. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, Ringsted, Denmark, August 10-13, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 44–57.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Why We Need To Listen To The Real Experts In Science [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-we-need-listen-real-experts-science/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Need for Improved Controls for Identifying and Correcting Safety Defects on Light Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jun. Report No.: B-164497(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Potter RH. Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana 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

1. Vecsey G. We’re All Finally Learning The True Price Of Football. New York Times. 2009 Oct 29;B14.

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	Journal of Molecular Psychiatry
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	2049-9256
Scope