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

Simmons, A. (2012). Archaeology. Mediterranean island voyages. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6109), 895–897.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigloch, K., & Mihalynuk, M. G. (2013). Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America. Nature, 496(7443), 50–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuberger, M., Zäch, M., & Spencer, N. D. (2001). Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid? Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5518), 905–908.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leduc, G., Vidal, L., Tachikawa, K., Rostek, F., Sonzogni, C., Beaufort, L., & Bard, E. (2007). Moisture transport across Central America as a positive feedback on abrupt climatic changes. Nature, 445(7130), 908–911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2008). Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Safety, Security, and Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Peleg, D. (Ed.). (2011). Distributed Computing: 25th International Symposium, DISC 2011, Rome, Italy, September 20-22, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6950). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moum, L., & Sturmey, P. (2014). Classification and Diagnostic Systems. In E. Tsakanikos & J. McCarthy (Eds.), Handbook of Psychopathology in Intellectual Disability: Research, Practice, and Policy (pp. 63–80). New York, NY: 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 Mental Health and Addiction.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 26). What Will Humans Look Like In 1,000 Years? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/short-video-where-humanity-will-be-1000-years/. 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. (2011). Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed (No. GAO-12-45). 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

Ellis, G. S. (2012). Compound-Specific Stable Isotopic Analysis of Protein Amino Acids: Ecological Applications in Modern and Ancient Systems (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, September 13). Empty Gray Gives Way to Blues and Boos, Just Like Before. New York Times, p. D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Sigloch and Mihalynuk 2013; Simmons 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sigloch and Mihalynuk 2013)
Three or more authors: (Leduc et al. 2007)

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