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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Jacobson MZ. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature. 2001;409:695–7.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Tani K, Stoltz BM. Synthesis and structural analysis of 2-quinuclidonium tetrafluoroborate. Nature. 2006;441:731–4.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Xu X, Zhou Z, Prum RO. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers. Nature. 2001;410:200–4.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Fujisawa T, Hayashi T, Tomita R, Hirayama Y. Bidirectional counting of single electrons. Science. 2006;312:1634–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Del Pico WJ. Electrical Estimating Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.
An edited book
1. Mamatas L, Matta I, Papadimitriou P, Koucheryavy Y, editors. Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 14th IFIP WG 6.2 International Conference, WWIC 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 25-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
1. VanBalkom WD, Beara M. Making or Breaking the Peace: The Role of Schools in Inter-Ethnic Peace Making. In: Simić O, Volčič Z, Philpot CR, editors. Peace Psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 75–87.

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. Drones Could Be Used To Fly Blood Samples To Remote Medical Centers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/drones-could-be-used-fly-blood-samples-remote-medical-centers/

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. Freight Railroad Safety: Results of Rail Industry Survey about Hours of Service Issues (GAO-11-894SP, September 2011), an E-supplement to GAO-11-853. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Sep. Report No.: GAO-11-894SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Cayo P. A Shifting Bottleneck Procedure with Multiple Objectives in a Complex Manufacturing Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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. Johnny Cash Has Now Become the Poet in Black. New York Times. 2016 Nov 11;C1.

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 titleChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
AbbreviationChild Adolesc. Psychiatry Ment. Health
ISSN (online)1753-2000
ScopePediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Psychiatry and Mental health

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