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

Mahaffy, P.R., 2005. Intensive Titan exploration begins. Science 308, 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oppenheim, J., Wehner, S., 2010. The uncertainty principle determines the nonlocality of quantum mechanics. Science 330, 1072–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Helled, R., Galanti, E., Kaspi, Y., 2015. Saturn’s fast spin determined from its gravitational field and oblateness. Nature 520, 202–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fischler, W., Kong, P., Marella, S., Scott, K., 2007. The detection of carbonation by the Drosophila gustatory system. Nature 448, 1054–1057.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L., Liotti, T.F., Oeser-Sweat, J., 2004. DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Barth, F.G., 2012. Frontiers in Sensing: From Biology to Engineering. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Kirlappos, I., Beautement, A., Sasse, M.A., 2013. “Comply or Die” Is Dead: Long Live Security-Aware Principal Agents, in: Adams, A.A., Brenner, M., Smith, M. (Eds.), Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2013 Workshops, USEC and WAHC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 70–82.

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, E., 2015. Study Suggests Fish Oil Supplements Don’t Prevent Mental Decline [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-suggests-fish-oil-supplements-don-t-prevent-mental-decline/ (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, 1982. Evaluation of NASA Comments on Consolidated Space Operations Center (No. MASAD-82-43). 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

Gu, J., 2010. Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Armstrong Aide Talks of Doping And Price Paid. 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 (Mahaffy, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mahaffy, 2005; Oppenheim and Wehner, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Oppenheim and Wehner, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Fischler et al., 2007)

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