

#Dsm 5 citation manual
This acronym should be italicized, as it refers to the title of a book. In text, cite the name of the association and the name of the manual in full at the first mention in the text thereafter, you may refer to the traditional DSM form (italicized) as follows: DSMIII (1980) 3rd ed. You may use the abbreviation “DSM-5” in the text after you used the full title.

Use abbreviations after your first in-text citation. Note the colon after “5th edition” and the comma between the author and year. For example, you would write, “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition American Psychiatric Association, 2013) separates depressive disorders from bipolar and related disorders.” The book title would be italicized in your text, and the remainder of the in-text citation is placed inside parentheses. On the first use of the DSM-5 in your text, you must write out the full name of the book and the full name of the American Psychiatric Association. Use in-text citations that refer to sources in your reference list. Note the absence of a period at the end of the DOI. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.807874 In this citation, the chapter title “Depressive disorders” would not be italicized, but the book title should be in italics.

In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Each chapter of the online DSM-5 has its own DOI, so the reference will indicate the chapter of the book as well as the DOI, as follows: American Psychiatric Association. Use the digital object identifier, or DOI, in place of the publisher when referencing the online edition of the DSM-5.
