How to format your references using the Advances in School Mental Health Promotion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in School Mental Health Promotion. 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 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

Thwaites, T. (2014). Research metrics: calling science to account. Nature, 511(7510), S57-60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rui, G., & Zhan, Q. (2014). Highly sensitive beam steering with plasmonic antenna. Scientific Reports, 4, 5962.

A journal article with 3 authors

Misura, K. M., Scheller, R. H., & Weis, W. I. (2000). Three-dimensional structure of the neuronal-Sec1-syntaxin 1a complex. Nature, 404(6776), 355–362.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Savee, J. D., Mozhayskiy, V. A., Mann, J. E., Krylov, A. I., & Continetti, R. E. (2008). The Role of excited-state topology in three-body dissociation of sym-triazine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5890), 826–830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz, E. R., Saade, G. R., Miller, H., & Davidson, C. M. (2016). Obstetric Clinical Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Aoki, T., Kanemitsu, S., Nakahara, M., & Ohno, Y. (Eds.). (2005). Zeta Functions, Topology and Quantum Physics (Vol. 14). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Walsh, F. (2013). Community-Based Practice Applications of a Family Resilience Framework. In D. S. Becvar (Ed.), Handbook of Family Resilience (pp. 65–82). 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 Advances in School Mental Health Promotion.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, June 6). Nemo’s Dad Should Have Become His Mom, And Other Lies Children’s Movies Told You. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nemos-dad-should-have-become-his-mom-and-other-lies-childrens-movies-told-you/

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. (2005). Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD Made Progress, but Much Work Remains to Fully Share Medical Information (GAO-05-1051T). 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

Beck, K. (2011). Comparing high school physics standards: What is included and what is not [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

KELLY STEWART; Kelly Stewart is a primatologist at Cambridge University. She has studied the behavior, ecology, & Conservation of Mountain. (1988, January 10). CHRONICLES OF THE PUMPHOUSE GANG. New York Times, 714.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thwaites, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rui & Zhan, 2014; Thwaites, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rui & Zhan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Savee et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in School Mental Health Promotion
Abbreviation	Adv. Sch. Ment. Health Promot.
ISSN (print)	1754-730X
ISSN (online)	2049-8535
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pediatrics Developmental and Educational Psychology