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

Szpiro, G., 2014. Mathematics: Constructor of a marvellous canon. Nature 514, 566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurie, B., Doctorow, C., 2012. Computing: secure the internet. Nature 491, 325–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sarrazin, A.F., Peel, A.D., Averof, M., 2012. A segmentation clock with two-segment periodicity in insects. Science 336, 338–341.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Viteau, M., Chotia, A., Allegrini, M., Bouloufa, N., Dulieu, O., Comparat, D., Pillet, P., 2008. Optical pumping and vibrational cooling of molecules. Science 321, 232–234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, B.K., 2015. Exercising Influence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sheen, E., Karremann, I. (Eds.), 2016. Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration, Global Shakespeares. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Rongy, L., Eckert, K., De Wit, A., 2013. A+B→C Reaction Fronts in Hele-Shaw Cells Under Modulated Gravitational Acceleration, in: Gilbert, T., Kirkilionis, M., Nicolis, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012, Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 23–27.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Pluto Probe Wakes From Hibernation Next Month [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/sleeping-space-probe-wakes-next-week/ (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, 1969. Enrollment and Attendance Aspects of Federal Student Financial Aid Programs (No. 092719). 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

Dalbey, S.B., 2017. Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Former Playmate Wins Procedural Round in Fight Over Estate. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szpiro, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Laurie and Doctorow, 2012; Szpiro, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Laurie and Doctorow, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Viteau et al., 2008)

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

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