How to format your references using the Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Giles, J. (2002). Attosecond science: the fast show. Nature, 420(6917), 737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Picker, L. J., & Lifson, J. D. (2015). HIV: Seeking ultimate victory. Nature, 517(7534), 281–282.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ji, Z., Gao, H., & Yu, H. (2015). CELL DIVISION CYCLE. Kinetochore attachment sensed by competitive Mps1 and microtubule binding to Ndc80C. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1260–1264.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Behrenfeld, M. J., O’Malley, R. T., Siegel, D. A., McClain, C. R., Sarmiento, J. L., Feldman, G. C., et al. (2006). Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity. Nature, 444(7120), 752–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsson, A. (2005). Understanding Changing Telecommunications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Demina, L. L., & Galkin, S. V. (Eds.). (2016). Trace Metal Biogeochemistry and Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Systems (Vol. 50). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

de Bruijn, H., ten Heuvelhof, E. F., & in ‘t Veld, R. (2010). The Process Architect in Action: Making a Process Design. In E. ten Heuvelhof & R. in ’t Veld (Eds.), Process Management: Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes (pp. 59–78). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 27). Video Games Could Be A Tool To Help People Out Of Depression. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/video-games-could-be-a-tool-to-help-people-out-of-depression/. 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. (1998). Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist (No. HEHS-98-84). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lowden, M. R. (2008). Genesis of end-to-end chromosome fusions (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 4). For Mets, It’s Injury After Injury, Year After Year. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Giles 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Giles 2002; Picker and Lifson 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Picker and Lifson 2015)
Three or more authors: (Behrenfeld et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Abbreviation	Adm. Policy Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	0894-587X
ISSN (online)	1573-3289
Scope	Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Phychiatric Mental Health