How to format your references using the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related 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	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

Gewin, V. (2007). The global challenge. Nature, 447(7142), 348–349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elderfield, H., & Ganssen, G. (2000). Past temperature and delta18O of surface ocean waters inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios. Nature, 405(6785), 442–445.

A journal article with 3 authors

Penmatsa, A., Wang, K. H., & Gouaux, E. (2013). X-ray structure of dopamine transporter elucidates antidepressant mechanism. Nature, 503(7474), 85–90.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lin, K., Xing, J., Quan, L. N., de Arquer, F. P. G., Gong, X., Lu, J., Xie, L., Zhao, W., Zhang, D., Yan, C., Li, W., Liu, X., Lu, Y., Kirman, J., Sargent, E. H., Xiong, Q., & Wei, Z. (2018). Perovskite light-emitting diodes with external quantum efficiency exceeding 20 per cent. Nature, 562(7726), 245–248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, A., & Legeard, B. (2016). Model-Based Testing Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Watson, L. W., & Woods, C. S. (Eds.). (2011). Go Where You Belong: Male Teachers as Cultural Workers in the Lives of Children, Families, and Communities (Vol. 67). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Majchrowska, A. (2011). The Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Poland. In M. Jones & M. Stenseke (Eds.), The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of Participation (pp. 81–98). Springer Netherlands.

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 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 11). The Most Influential Scientist You May Never Have Heard Of. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1996). Domestic Aviation: Changes in Airfares, Service, and Safety Since Airline Deregulation (T-RCED-96-126). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, T. F. (2017). The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Wilson, M., & Moynihan, C. (2017, October 2). Witnesses Recall Deafening Blast and Shrapnel in Chelsea Bombing Trial. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Elderfield & Ganssen, 2000; Gewin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Elderfield & Ganssen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Obsessive Compuls. Relat. Disord.
ISSN (print)	2211-3649
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