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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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 titleCommunity Mental Health Journal
AbbreviationCommunity Ment. Health J.
ISSN (print)0010-3853
ISSN (online)1573-2789
ScopePsychiatry and Mental health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health(social science)

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