How to format your references using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 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

1. Deplus C. Plate tectonics. Indian Ocean actively deforms. Science. 2001;292:1850–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Panchanathan K, Boyd R. Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature. 2004;432:499–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. DeLoache JS, Uttal DH, Rosengren KS. Scale errors offer evidence for a perception-action dissociation early in life. Science. 2004;304:1027–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Garcia-Castellanos D, Estrada F, Jiménez-Munt I, Gorini C, Fernàndez M, Vergés J, et al. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature. 2009;462:778–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Avdeef A. Absorption and Drug Development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Gondran M. Graphs, Dioids and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms. Minoux M, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Polat A. A Review of the Geodynamic Significance of Hornblende-Bearing Ultramafic Rocks in the Mesoarchean Fiskenæsset Complex, SW Greenland. In: Dilek Y, Furnes H, editors. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 127–47.

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 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Connecting Animals To The Cloud Could Help Predict Earthquakes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/connecting-animals-cloud-could-help-predict-earthquakes/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Payment to Counties: More Clarity Could Help Ensure County Expenditures Are Consistent with Key Parts of the Secure Rural Schools Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jul. Report No.: GAO-12-775.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nelson AF. Anxiety in the process of individuation. An in-depth psychological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2014.

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

1. Fisher L. QUOTATION OF THE DAY. New York Times. 2008 Feb 17;A2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Abbreviation	Child Adolesc. Psychiatry Ment. Health
ISSN (online)	1753-2000
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health