Style error: The American Journal of Psychiatry

Hello All,
I would like to report a style error.
Thank you for the support in advance!

Deviations of the style:

* Intext Citation schould use a comma: (1, 2)
* In the References et al. schould start after the third author


Link: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/ajp_ifora

Excerpt:

Zinbarg RE, Barlow DH, Liebowitz M, et al: The DSM-IV field trial for mixed anxiety-depression. Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1153-1162

Beahrs JO: The cultural impact of psychiatry: the question of regressive effects, in American Psychiatry After World War II: 1944-1994. Edited by Menninger RW, Nemiah JC. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 2000, pp 321-342

Burrows GD, Norman TR, Judd FK, et al: Short-acting versus long-acting benzodiazepines: discontinuation effects in panic disorders. J Psychiatr Res 1990; 24(suppl 2):65-72
  • thank you for reporting the mistakes.
    I do not have access to this journal.
    Could you very the two mistakes in the pdfs of some articles and copy paste them here? I'll then prepare the fix.
  • Thank you for your reply. Here are two examples:

    Intext:

    Given the promising findings of improved mood and sleep from midday light therapy and the possible association of therapeutic response with changes in circadian rhythms (9, 12, 13), we adjusted the time of intervention to midday in our pilot study.

    or

    ...25% - 48% continue to have impairing symptoms (1 – 5).

    References:

    11. Leibenluft E, Turner EH, Feldman-Naim S, et al: Light therapy in patients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder: preliminary results. Psychopharmacol Bull 1995; 31:705 – 710
    12. Hashimoto S, Kohsaka M, Nakamura K, et al: Midday exposure to bright light changes the circadian organization of plasma melatonin rhythm in humans. Neurosci Lett 1997; 221:89 – 92
    13. Mishima K, Okawa M, Shimizu T, et al: Diminished melatonin secretion in the elderly caused by insuf fi cient environmental illumination. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001; 86:129 – 134

    or

    3. Klein RG, Mannuzza S, Olazagasti MA, et al: Clinical and functional outcome of childhood attention-de fi cit/hyperactivity disorder 33 years later. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2012; 69:1295 – 1303
    4. Molina BS, Hinshaw SP, Swanson JM, et al: The MTA at 8 years: prospectivefollow-upof children treated for combined-type ADHD in a multisite study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2009; 48:484 – 500
    5. Shaw P, Malek M, Watson B, et al: Trajectories of cerebral cortical development in childhood and adolescence and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2013; 74:599 – 606
    6. Halperin JM, Schulz KP: Revisiting the role of the prefrontal cortex in the pathophysiology of attention-de fi cit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychol Bull 2006; 132:560 – 581

  • Hi,
    thank you!

    I noted that there is one additional style error in the reference list with the journal abbrivation. No period is used with the journal abrivation.

    Example:
    Smith AB, Taylor E, Brammer M, et al: Task-specific hypoactivation in prefrontal and temporoparietal brain regions during motor inhibition and task switching in medication-naive children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163:1044 – 1051

    Thank you very much.
  • Thank you very much!
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