How to format your references using the Community Mental Health Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Community Mental Health Journal. 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

Kitano, H. (2003). Cancer robustness: tumour tactics. Nature, 426(6963), 125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek, J., & Lukas, J. (2001). Cell cycle. Order from destruction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5540), 66–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, R., Gintis, H., & Bowles, S. (2010). Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 617–620.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ciardo, F., Marino, B. F. M., Actis-Grosso, R., Rossetti, A., & Ricciardelli, P. (2014). Face age modulates gaze following in young adults. Scientific reports, 4, 4746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Amico, G., Di Biase, G., Janssen, J., & Manca, R. (2017). Semi-Markov Migration Models for Credit Risk. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Larvor, B. (Ed.). (2016). Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lo Piparo, E., Fratev, F., Mazzatorta, P., Smiesko, M., & Benfenati, E. (2006). Toxicity in allelopathy: In Silico Approach. In M. J. Reigosa, N. Pedrol, & L. González (Eds.), Allelopathy: A Physiological Process with Ecological Implications (pp. 105–126). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Community Mental Health Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 30). Drugs From Bugs: The Next Blockbuster Medicine Could Be Lurking Inside An Insect. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drugs-from-bugs-the-next-blockbuster-medicine-could-be-lurking-inside-an-insect/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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

Government Accountability Office. (2004). Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements (No. GAO-04-659). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rich, D. W. (2009). Examining the relationship of values-based management in performance evaluations (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Billard, M. (2010, August 5). What’s Old And New. New York Times, p. E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kitano 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bartek and Lukas 2001; Kitano 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bartek and Lukas 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ciardo et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Community Mental Health Journal
Abbreviation	Community Ment. Health J.
ISSN (print)	0010-3853
ISSN (online)	1573-2789
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)