How to format your references using the Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 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

Rahmstorf, S. (2007). A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 368–370.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crandall, K. A., & Buhay, J. E. (2004). Evolution. Genomic databases and the tree of life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5699), 1144–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Evaristo, J., Jasechko, S., & McDonnell, J. J. (2015). Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow. Nature, 525(7567), 91–94.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, X., Clark, J. M., Forster, C. A., Norell, M. A., Erickson, G. M., Eberth, D. A., Jia, C., & Zhao, Q. (2006). A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature, 439(7077), 715–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitola, J., III. (2002). Software Radio Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Williams, P. J., & Newhouse, C. P. (Eds.). (2013). Digital Representations of Student Performance for Assessment. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma, E. Y. T., & Kremer, S. C. (2009). Neural Grammar Networks. In M. Bianchini, M. Maggini, F. Scarselli, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Innovations in Neural Information Paradigms and Applications (pp. 67–96). 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 Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, July 5). More Male Alpine Plants In A Warmer, Drier World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/more-male-alpine-plants-in-a-warmer-drier-world/

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. (2008). Digital Television Transition: Majority of Broadcasters Are Prepared for the DTV Transition, but Some Technical and Coordination Issues Remain (GAO-08-510). 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

Alai, N. L. (2017). Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Stevenson, A., & Goldstein, M. (2016, December 26). Renting to Own a Tainted Home. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rahmstorf, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Crandall & Buhay, 2004; Rahmstorf, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Crandall & Buhay, 2004)
Three authors: (Evaristo et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Xu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
Abbreviation	Crisis
ISSN (print)	0227-5910
ISSN (online)	2151-2396
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health