How to format your references using the Journal of Psychiatric Research citation style

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

Cook-Deegan, R., 2012. Patent law. Law and science collide over human gene patents. Science 338, 745–747.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhoj, V.G., Chen, Z.J., 2009. Ubiquitylation in innate and adaptive immunity. Nature 458, 430–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ungless, M.A., Magill, P.J., Bolam, J.P., 2004. Uniform inhibition of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area by aversive stimuli. Science 303, 2040–2042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peers, G., Truong, T.B., Ostendorf, E., Busch, A., Elrad, D., Grossman, A.R., Hippler, M., Niyogi, K.K., 2009. An ancient light-harvesting protein is critical for the regulation of algal photosynthesis. Nature 462, 518–521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Sutherland, P., 2014. Principles of Electrical Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Porcu, E., Montero, J., Schlather, M. (Eds.), 2012. Advances and Challenges in Space-time Modelling of Natural Events, Lecture Notes in Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Straume, T., 2015. Medical Concerns with Space Radiation and Radiobiological Effects, in: Pelton, J.N., Allahdadi, F. (Eds.), Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 259–293.

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 Psychiatric Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Drones Are Delivering Blood And Vaccines Around The Clock In Rwanda [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/drones-are-delivering-blood-and-vaccines-around-the-clock-in-rwanda/ (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, 1991. Tax Policy: Refund Offset Program Benefits Appear to Exceed Costs (No. GGD-91-64). 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

Khanabadi Ghehi, M., 2017. Global Operation of Integrated Decentralized Power Systems (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Lehman, S., 2017. And Now for the Good News. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook-Deegan, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bhoj and Chen, 2009; Cook-Deegan, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bhoj and Chen, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Peers et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychiatric Research
Abbreviation	J. Psychiatr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3956
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry