How to format your references using the Molecular Psychiatry citation style

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

Dyson PJ. Journal club. A chemist highlights promising organometallic drugs. Nature. 2009;458:389.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brei B, Fish D. Comment on ‘Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals’. Science. 2003;300:55; author reply 55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paredez AR, Somerville CR, Ehrhardt DW. Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules. Science. 2006;312:1491–1495.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim K, Lerou P, Yabuuchi A, Lengerke C, Ng K, West J, et al. Histocompatible embryonic stem cells by parthenogenesis. Science. 2007;315:482–486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lawless HT. Quantitative Sensory Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Noonan NC, Nadkarni V, editors. Challenge and Change: Global Threats and the State in Twenty-first Century International Politics. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Mingche L, Zhiying W, JianJun G, Kui D, Li S. Template Vertical Dictionary-Based Program Compression Scheme on the TTA. In: Azémard N, Svensson L, editors. Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation: 17th International Workshop, PATMOS 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 3-5, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 43–52.

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 Molecular Psychiatry.

Blog post

Davis J. BMW Plan to Integrate Street Lights with Electric Car Charging Points. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bmw-plan-integrate-street-lights-electric-car-charging-oints/. Accessed 30 October 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. Educating People at Risk for AIDS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Azios M. The College Experience of Stuttering: An Ethnographic Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

Macfarlane I. Wordsworth. New York Times. 1906:RECIEW OF BOOKSBR166.

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	Molecular Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1476-5578
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