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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Sloboda, J. (2014). Q&A: Melodic psychologist. Interview by Jascha Hoffman. Nature, 506(7489), 433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brédas, J.-L., & Silbey, R. (2009). Chemistry. Excitons surf along conjugated polymer chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5912), 348–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Braunschweig, H., Radacki, K., & Schneider, A. (2010). Oxoboryl complexes: boron-oxygen triple bonds stabilized in the coordination sphere of platinum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5976), 345–347.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fairhall, A. L., Lewen, G. D., Bialek, W., & de Ruyter Van Steveninck, R. R. (2001). Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code. Nature, 412(6849), 787–792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sears, R. W., & Chard, K. M. (2016). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yu, Y., Yu, Z., & Zhao, J. (Eds.). (2011). Computer Science for Environmental Engineering and EcoInformatics: International Workshop, CSEEE 2011, Kunming, China, July 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 159). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Royer, J. J., Mejia, P., Caumon, G., & Collon, P. (2015). 3D and 4D Geomodelling Applied to Mineral Resources Exploration—An Introduction. In P. Weihed (Ed.), 3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe (pp. 73–89). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Mental Health and Addiction.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 5). Mechanisms Contributing To The Rare Ability To Control HIV Infection Found. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mechanisms-contributing-rare-ability-control-hiv-infection-found/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision (No. GAO-01-436). Washington, DC: 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

Cervantes-Kelly, M. D. (2010). Translation and interpretation as a means to improve bilingual high school students’ English and Spanish academic language proficiency (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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, June 16). Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry. New York Times, p. A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sloboda 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brédas and Silbey 2009; Sloboda 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brédas and Silbey 2009)
Three or more authors: (Fairhall et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ment. Health Addict.
ISSN (print)	1557-1874
ISSN (online)	1557-1882
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health