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. Merilä J. Evolutionary biology: Perplexing effects of phenotypic plasticity. Nature. 2015;525:326–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Flannigan DJ, Suslick KS. Plasma formation and temperature measurement during single-bubble cavitation. Nature. 2005;434:52–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Leopold DA, Bondar IV, Giese MA. Norm-based face encoding by single neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nature. 2006;442:572–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Patton GC, Olsson CA, Skirbekk V, Saffery R, Wlodek ME, Azzopardi PS, et al. Adolescence and the next generation. Nature. 2018;554:458–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

1. Nakamura S, Kondo Y, editors. Waste Input-Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chiek Y. Compossibility and Co-possibility. In: Brown G, Chiek Y, editors. Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 91–124.

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. One-Third of Earth’s Largest Groundwater Basins are “in Distress” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/one-third-earths-largest-groundwater-basins-are-distress/

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. Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Apr. Report No.: GAO-15-317SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilson B. Scale effects and the determinants of parcel subdivision: A discrete -time hazard analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

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. Vecsey G. College Athletes Move Concussions Into the Courtroom. New York Times. 2011 Nov 30;B14.

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