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. Lee PH. Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? A simulation study. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6085.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vidale JE, Li Y-G. Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake. Nature. 2003;421:524–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Patek SN, Korff WL, Caldwell RL. Biomechanics: deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature. 2004;428:819–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Huang Y, Mao K, Chen X, Sun M-A, Kawabe T, Li W, et al. S1P-dependent interorgan trafficking of group 2 innate lymphoid cells supports host defense. Science. 2018;359:114–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lutzke D. Surfen in die digitale Zukunft. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. AbuRahma AF, Bergan JJ, editors. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy. Second Edition. London: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Corona I, Giacinto G, Roli F. Intrusion Detection in Computer Systems Using Multiple Classifier Systems. In: Okun O, Valentini G, editors. Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 91–113.

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. Carpineti A. This 3D Map Of 1.2 Million Galaxies Could Unlock The Secrets of Dark Energy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-3d-map-of-12-million-galaxies-could-unlock-the-secrets-of-dark-energy/

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. GSA: Federal Communications Commission Planned Move to the Portals II Building. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Feb. Report No.: GGD-98-65R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Beard AR. Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Sisario B. The Promoter Is an Indie. New York Times. 2017 Aug 6;B1.

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