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

Rockman, M. V. (2008). Reverse engineering the genotype-phenotype map with natural genetic variation. Nature, 456(7223), 738–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dye, C., & Williams, B. G. (2010). The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 856–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buehler, M. J., Abraham, F. F., & Gao, H. (2003). Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature, 426(6963), 141–146.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, L., Yu, X., Zheng, L., Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Fang, Q., Gao, R., Kang, B., Zhang, Q., Huang, J. Y., Konno, H., Guo, X., Ye, Y., Gao, S., Wang, S., Hu, X., Ren, X., Shen, Z., Ouyang, W., & Zhang, Z. (2018). Lineage tracking reveals dynamic relationships of T cells in colorectal cancer. Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building. (2016). Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bièvre, P. D., & Günzler, H. (Eds.). (2005). Validation in Chemical Measurement. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Missier, P., Belhajjame, K., Zhao, J., Roos, M., & Goble, C. (2008). Data Lineage Model for Taverna Workflows with Lightweight Annotation Requirements. In J. Freire, D. Koop, & L. Moreau (Eds.), Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes: Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 17-18, 2008. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 17–30). 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

Davis, J. (2017, May 22). Human And Chimpanzee Split May Have Occurred In Europe, Not Africa. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-and-chimpanzee-split-may-have-occurred-in-europe-not-africa/

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. (2013). FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit (GAO-13-551R). 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

Siczek, M. M. (2014). Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-year Writing Course [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016, October 28). A Firm Grip Brandished During a Low-Key Debut. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rockman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dye & Williams, 2010; Rockman, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Dye & Williams, 2010)
Three authors: (Buehler et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2018)

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