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

Villeval, M. C. (2014). Behavioural economics: Professional identity can increase dishonesty. Nature, 516(7529), 48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weston, C. R., & Davis, R. J. (2001). Signal transduction: signaling specificity- a complex affair. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2439–2440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, M., Dong, W., & Wang, A. (2013). Two-dimensional carbon topological insulators superior to graphene. Scientific reports, 3, 3532.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Carulla, N., Caddy, G. L., Hall, D. R., Zurdo, J., Gairí, M., Feliz, M., et al. (2005). Molecular recycling within amyloid fibrils. Nature, 436(7050), 554–558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, A. R., & Chiang, K. (2017). Monetizing Your Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pomogailo, A. D. (2014). Nanostructured Materials Preparation via Condensation Ways. (G. I. Dzhardimalieva, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dash, T., Nayak, S. K., & Behera, H. S. (2015). Hybrid Gravitational Search and Particle Swarm Based Fuzzy MLP for Medical Data Classification. In L. C. Jain, H. S. Behera, J. K. Mandal, & D. P. Mohapatra (Eds.), Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 20-21 December 2014 (pp. 35–43). New Delhi: Springer India.

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, May 20). Is Talking To Yourself A Sign Of Mental Illness? An Expert Delivers Her Verdict. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/is-talking-to-yourself-a-sign-of-mental-illness-an-expert-delivers-her-verdict/. 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. (1986). Social Security: Improved Telephone Accessibility Would Better Serve the Public (No. HRD-86-85). 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

Morissette, T. M. (2009). Elder friendliness and social participation of older adults living within age-segregated retirement communities (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017, June 30). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Villeval 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Villeval 2014; Weston and Davis 2001).

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

Two authors: (Weston and Davis 2001)
Three or more authors: (Carulla et al. 2005)

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)

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