How to format your references using the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 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

Reynolds CR (2005) The evolution of sensibility. Nature 434:316–319

A journal article with 2 authors

Willimsky G, Blankenstein T (2005) Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance. Nature 437:141–146

A journal article with 3 authors

Markos C, Kubat I, Bang O (2014) Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms. Sci Rep 4:6057

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Morozov SV, et al (2004) Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films. Science 306:666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson GR (2011) Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bessis N, Dobre C (2014) Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Meng E, Zhang X, Benard W (2011) Additive Processes for Polymeric Materials. In: Ghodssi R, Lin P (eds) MEMS Materials and Processes Handbook. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 193–271

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 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Does Your Vulva Hurt? You Could Have Vulvodynia. In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Charter Schools: Use of Start-Up Grant Funds. 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

Ryan HL (2009) Normalizing happiness: The rhetoric of depression in Direct -to -Consumer advertising. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Barron J (2017) Keeping Historic, but Expensive, Fixer-Uppers Affordable. New York Times A20

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	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Abbreviation	Soc. Psychiatry Psychiatr. Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)	0933-7954
ISSN (online)	1433-9285
Scope	Epidemiology Psychiatry and Mental health Social Psychology Health(social science)