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

Moore, C. M. (2014). Ocean Science. Microbial proteins and oceanic nutrient cycles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6201), 1120–1121.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiel, S., & Little, C. T. S. (2006). Cold-seep mollusks are older than the general marine mollusk fauna. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1429–1431.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubash, N. K., Fleurbaey, M., & Kartha, S. (2014). Climate policy. Political implications of data presentation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 36–37.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zeff, B. W., Lanterman, D. D., McAllister, R., Roy, R., Kostelich, E. J., & Lathrop, D. P. (2003). Measuring intense rotation and dissipation in turbulent flows. Nature, 421(6919), 146–149.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hansen, K. L., & Zenobia, K. E. (2011). Civil Engineer’s Handbook of Professional Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Akhmet, M. (2014). Neural Networks with Discontinuous/Impact Activations. (E. Yılmaz, Ed.) (Vol. 9). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, L., Mkwawa, I.-H., Jammeh, E., & Ifeachor, E. (2013). VoIP Signalling—SIP. In I.-H. Mkwawa, E. Jammeh, & E. Ifeachor (Eds.), Guide to Voice and Video over IP: For Fixed and Mobile Networks (pp. 101–122). London: Springer.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 13). Check Out This Amazing Video Of Apollo Photos Turned Into A Stop Motion Film. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-video-turned-those-apollo-photos-stop-motion-film/. 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. (1976). Compensation for Service as Teacher With the Overseas Dependents Schools (No. B-186970). 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

Tucker, M. S. (2010). Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of in vitro selected artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Davidson, A. (2013, May 2). Boom, Bust or What? New York Times, p. MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kiel and Little 2006; Moore 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kiel and Little 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zeff et al. 2003)

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)