How to format your references using the The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Primary Care Companion for CNS 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

Astudillo Besnier P. Chile needs better science governance and support. Nature. 2014 Jul 24;511(7510):385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zahn LM, Travis J. Cancer genomics. A medical renaissance? Introduction. Science. 2013 Mar 29;339(6127):1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singhal N, Kumar M, Virdi JS. Molecular analysis of β-lactamase genes to understand their differential expression in strains of Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 12;4:5270.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stanhope MJ, Lupas A, Italia MJ, Koretke KK, Volker C, Brown JR. Phylogenetic analyses do not support horizontal gene transfers from bacteria to vertebrates. Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):940–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy T. Electromagnetism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Heine VM. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine. Dooves S, Holmes D, Wagner J, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XV, 59p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience).

A chapter in an edited book

Naheedy JH, Mafee MF. Imaging Diagnosis of the Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma. In: Jeremic B, Pitz S, editors. Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 39–53. (Medical Radiology).

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 The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders.

Blog post

Luntz S. Re-Examination Of Old Notebooks Reveals Powerful Mathematics. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Federal Judiciary: Information on the Weighted Filings Assigned to Senior District and Magistrate Judges in Fiscal Year 1997 in 21 District Courts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Mar. Report No.: GGD-99-37R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Samel C. Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Agree to Hear Case Challenging Voter ID Laws. New York Times. 2007 Sep 26;A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders
Abbreviation	Prim. Care Companion CNS Disord.
ISSN (print)	2155-7772
ISSN (online)	2155-7780
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