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

Webster, R. G. (2001). Virology. A molecular whodunit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5536), 1773–1775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Begun, D. R., & Ward, C. V. (2005). Comment on “Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5719), 203; author reply 203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, Z., Watanabe, S., & Kato, T. (2013). The irradiation effect of a simultaneous laser and electron dual-beam on void formation. Scientific reports, 3, 1201.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Biterge, B., Richter, F., Mittler, G., & Schneider, R. (2014). Methylation of histone H4 at aspartate 24 by protein L-isoaspartate O-methyltransferase (PCMT1) links histone modifications with protein homeostasis. Scientific reports, 4, 6674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zlokarnik, M. (2005). Scale-up. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Monga, M. (Ed.). (2013). Ureteroscopy: Indications, Instrumentation & Technique. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuswanto, K., Hoen, H. W., & Holzhacker, R. L. (2016). Decentralization, Foreign Direct Investment and Development in Indonesia. In R. L. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, & J. Woltjer (Eds.), Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia (pp. 105–143). 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

Fang, J. (2015, February 13). Two Surprisingly Modern Jurassic Mammals Found in China. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-surprisingly-modern-jurassic-mammals-found-china/. 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. (1989). Hazardous Materials: Federal Training for First Responders to Highway and Railroad Incidents (No. RCED-89-146FS). 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

Rutherford, B. A. (2017). Beneficial Tensile Mean Strain Effects on the Fatigue Behavior of Superelastic NiTi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Hubbard, B., & Sengupta, S. (2016, December 19). Russia Backs U.N. Vote to Send Monitors to Aleppo, as Evacuations Resume. New York Times, p. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Webster 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Begun and Ward 2005; Webster 2001).

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

Two authors: (Begun and Ward 2005)
Three or more authors: (Biterge et al. 2014)

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