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

Modugno, G. (2009). Physics. Universal few-body binding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5960), 1640–1641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Summers, M. F., & Hrabowski, F. A., 3rd. (2006). Diversity. Preparing minority scientists and engineers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1870–1871.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeffery, C. S., Tout, C. A., & Lattanzio, J. C. (2006). Astronomy. Nucleosynthesis in binary stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5759), 345–346.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Solanki, S. K., Usoskin, I. G., Kromer, B., Schüssler, M., & Beer, J. (2004). Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years. Nature, 431(7012), 1084–1087.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J. R., & Peters, J. R. (2016). Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement in Government. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Qudrat-Ullah, H., Spector, J. M., & Davidsen, P. I. (Eds.). (2008). Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Christinat, Y., & Moret, B. M. E. (2012). A Transcript Perspective on Evolution. In L. Bleris, I. Măndoiu, R. Schwartz, & J. Wang (Eds.), Bioinformatics Research and Applications: 8th International Symposium, ISBRA 2012, Dallas, TX, USA, May 21-23, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 48–59). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. (2016, November 28). Earth’s Deepest Water May Be 1,000 Kilometers Below The Surface. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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). Information and Technology Management: Responsibilities, Reporting Relationships, Tenure, and Challenges of Agency Chief Information Officers (No. GAO-04-957T). 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

Chappel, A. M. (2012). A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students (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

Philipps, D., & Hubbard, B. (2017, July 25). U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Modugno 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Modugno 2009; Summers and Hrabowski 2006).

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

Two authors: (Summers and Hrabowski 2006)
Three or more authors: (Solanki et al. 2004)

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)