How to format your references using the Geriatric Mental Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geriatric Mental Health Care. 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	Download the output style file
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

Browse, J., 2010. Plant science. Saving the bilayer. Science 330, 185–186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bengtson, M.H., Joazeiro, C.A.P., 2010. Role of a ribosome-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase in protein quality control. Nature 467, 470–473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P., 2002. Computational and evolutionary aspects of language. Nature 417, 611–617.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shin, S.-Y., Choi, J.M., Seo, J., Ahn, H.-W., Choi, Y.G., Cheong, B.-K., Lee, S., 2014. The effect of doping Sb on the electronic structure and the device characteristics of Ovonic Threshold Switches based on Ge-Se. Sci. Rep. 4, 7099.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labuszewski, J.W., Nyhoff, J.E., Co, R., Peterson, P.E., 2010. The CME Group Risk Management Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Xenitidou, M., Edmonds, B. (Eds.), 2014. The Complexity of Social Norms, Computational Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, N.K., Patel, D.B., 2012. Microalgae for Bioremediation of Distillery Effluent, in: Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.), Farming for Food and Water Security, Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 83–109.

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 Geriatric Mental Health Care.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. According To Science, Are Male Or Female Orgasms Better? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/according-to-science-are-male-or-female-orgasms-better/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. School Technology: Five School Districts’ Experiences in Funding Technology Programs (No. HEHS-98-35). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Venter, W.M., 2016. People and Pride: A Qualitative Study of Place Attachment and Professional Placemakers (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

Casey, N., 2017. Peace Is New Test for Colombian Coca Farmers. 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 (Browse, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bengtson and Joazeiro, 2010; Browse, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bengtson and Joazeiro, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Shin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geriatric Mental Health Care
Abbreviation	Geriatr. Ment. Health Care
ISSN (print)	2212-9693
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychiatry and Mental health