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

Dobson, A.P., 2005. Virology. What links bats to emerging infectious diseases? Science 310, 628–629.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields, S., Johnston, M., 2002. Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature. Science 296, 671–672.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lineweaver, C.H., Fenner, Y., Gibson, B.K., 2004. The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way. Science 303, 59–62.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gavrilova, O., Marcus-Samuels, B., Leon, L.R., Vinson, C., Reitman, M.L., 2000. Leptin and diabetes in lipoatrophic mice. Nature 403, 850; discussion 850-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziegler, M., 2012. Geotechnische Nachweise nach EC 7 und DIN 1054. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Chick, G. (Ed.), 2013. Acute and Chronic Finger Injuries in Ball Sports, Sports and Traumatology. Springer, Paris.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebara, M., Kotsuchibashi, Y., Uto, K., Aoyagi, T., Kim, Y.-J., Narain, R., Idota, N., Hoffman, J.M., 2014. Smart Surfaces, in: Kotsuchibashi, Y., Narain, R., Idota, N., Kim, Y.-J., Hoffman, J.M., Uto, K., Aoyagi, T. (Eds.), Smart Biomaterials, NIMS Monographs. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 115–188.

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

Andrew, D., 2017. Influenza: The Search For A Universal Vaccine [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2001. Aviation Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers (No. GAO-01-831). 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

Shimizu, K., 2013. The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

McKINLEY, J., Mueller, B., 2015. 2 Escapees Still at Large Despite 450-Officer Hunt in Remote, Swampy Area. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson, 2005; Fields and Johnston, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fields and Johnston, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Gavrilova et al., 2000)

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