How to format your references using the International Journal of Culture and Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Culture and 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	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

Nathan, C. (2015). IMMUNOLOGY. From transient infection to chronic disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6257), 161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rambo, R. P., & Tainer, J. A. (2013). Accurate assessment of mass, models and resolution by small-angle scattering. Nature, 496(7446), 477–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.-H., Kim, H., & Kim, N. J. (2015). Brittle intermetallic compound makes ultrastrong low-density steel with large ductility. Nature, 518(7537), 77–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bäurle, I., Smith, L., Baulcombe, D. C., & Dean, C. (2007). Widespread role for the flowering-time regulators FCA and FPA in RNA-mediated chromatin silencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5847), 109–112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell, C. A. (2008). The One-Page Project Manager for it Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Calude, C. S., Dinneen, M. J., Păun, G., Pérez-Jímenez, M. J., & Rozenberg, G. (Eds.). (2005). Unconventional Computation: 4th International Conference, UC 2005, Sevilla, Spain, October 3 – 7, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3699). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nandy, P., & Aminul Islam, M. (2010). Climate Resilient Coastal Zone Development in Bangladesh: Participatory Governance for Common Resources Management. In A. L. Ramanathan, P. Bhattacharya, T. Dittmar, M. B. K. Prasad, & B. R. Neupane (Eds.), Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments (pp. 58–72). Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Culture and Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 30). One In Five Genetics Studies Contain Mistakes Due To Microsoft Excel. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-five-genetics-studies-contain-mistakes-microsoft-excel/

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. (2007). Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain (GAO-07-910T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hudson, N. (2017). Undocumented Latino Student Activists’ Funds of Knowledge: Transforming Social Movements [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2013, April 2). I.R.S. Reversal on ‘Church’ Pension Plan Rescues a Fund. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nathan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nathan, 2015; Rambo & Tainer, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rambo & Tainer, 2013)
Three authors: (Kim et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Bäurle et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Culture and Mental Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Cult. Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	1754-2863
ISSN (online)	1754-2871
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Social Psychology Cultural Studies