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

Lusis, A. J. (2000). Atherosclerosis. Nature, 407(6801), 233–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piperno, D. R., & Stothert, K. E. (2003). Phytolith evidence for early Holocene Cucurbita domestication in southwest Ecuador. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5609), 1054–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaochar, S., Paek, A. L., & Weinert, T. (2010). Genetics. Replication error amplified. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994), 911–913.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Diemand, J., Kuhlen, M., Madau, P., Zemp, M., Moore, B., Potter, D., & Stadel, J. (2008). Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution. Nature, 454(7205), 735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cuddy-Keane, M., Hammond, A., & Peat, A. (2014). Modernism: Keywords. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mouza, C., & Lavigne, N. (Eds.). (2013). Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Preining, N. (2010). Gödel Logics – A Survey. In C. G. Fermüller & A. Voronkov (Eds.), Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 17th International Conference, LPAR-17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, October 10-15, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 30–51). Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2013, December 3). Gene Therapy Provides Significant Antiviral Results Against HIV. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2009). Information Technology: Actions Needed to Fully Establish Program Management Capability for VA’s Financial and Logistics Initiative (GAO-10-40). 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

Herman, G. S. (2013). Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Gordon, M. R., & Schmitt, E. (2017, May 9). Defying Turkey, U.S. Will Arm Kurds in Syria. 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 (Lusis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lusis, 2000; Piperno & Stothert, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Piperno & Stothert, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Diemand et al., 2008)

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