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. Benton TG. Ecology. Managing farming’s footprint on biodiversity. Science. 2007;315:341–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Federman SR, Young ED. Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science. 2009;324:1516; author reply 1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sims DW, Andrews PL, Young JZ. Stomach rinsing in rays. Nature. 2000;404:566.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kornmann B, Currie E, Collins SR, Schuldiner M, Nunnari J, Weissman JS, et al. An ER-mitochondria tethering complex revealed by a synthetic biology screen. Science. 2009;325:477–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Davis TG. Java® and Mac OS® X. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Rzoska SJ, Mazur VA, editors. Soft Matter under Exogenic Impacts. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mitra A, Zaman S. Phytoplankton Carbon Stock. In: Zaman S, editor. Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015. p. 143–201.

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. Taub B. Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs And Bite Their Nails May Have Fewer Allergies [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/kids-who-suck-their-thumbs-bite-their-nails-may-have-fewer-allergies/

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. Public Transit: Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 May. Report No.: GAO-14-472.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilson P. A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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. Brantley B. The Caged Beast Awakens. New York Times. 2017 Apr 1;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 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

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