How to format your references using the Evidence-Based Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evidence-Based Mental Health. 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

Levine JM. Ecology: A trail map for trait-based studies. Nature. 2016;529:163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich GR, Wood BJ. The Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2001;412:501–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doebeli M, Hauert C, Killingback T. The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors. Science. 2004;306:859–62.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson JB, Lees JM, Gerst A, et al. Long-period earthquakes and co-eruptive dome inflation seen with particle image velocimetry. Nature. 2008;456:377–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Imrie R, Street E. Architectural Design and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2011.

An edited book

Schumpelick V, Fitzgibbons RJ, editors. Recurrent Hernia: Prevention and Treatment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Böcking T, Gooding JJ. Biomimetic Membranes in Biosensor Applications. In: Martin DK, ed. Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes. Boston, MA: Springer US 2007:127–66.

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 Evidence-Based Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Nine Surprising Facts About Breasts You Probably Didn’t Know. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nine-surprising-facts-about-breasts-you-probably-didn-t-know/ (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. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 10. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zitko JA. Effects of Random Cross-Sectioned Distributions, Fiber Misalignment and Interphases in Three-Dimensional Composite Models on Transverse Shear Modulus. 2012.

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

Rothenberg B. Win Doesn’t Quiet Talk Over a Suspicious Loss. New York Times. 2017;SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Evidence-Based Mental Health
Abbreviation	Evid. Based. Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	1362-0347
ISSN (online)	1468-960X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health