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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. 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

Contreras, J. L. (2010). Information access. Prepublication data release, latency, and genome commons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5990), 393–394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, J. P., Jr, & Zagotta, W. N. (2001). Rotational movement during cyclic nucleotide-gated channel opening. Nature, 412(6850), 917–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinnon, L., Nol, E., & Juillet, C. (2013). Arctic-nesting birds find physiological relief in the face of trophic constraints. Scientific Reports, 3, 1816.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Stelling, J., Klamt, S., Bettenbrock, K., Schuster, S., & Gilles, E. D. (2002). Metabolic network structure determines key aspects of functionality and regulation. Nature, 420(6912), 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne, A. (2013). Guide to Building Control. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Narayanan, R. (Ed.). (2008). Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation of Surfactants (Vol. 218). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stoeglehner, G., Narodoslawsky, M., Erker, S., & Neugebauer, G. (2016). Fields of Action for Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning. In G. Neugebauer, S. Erker, & M. Narodoslawsky (Eds.), Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning: Supporting Climate Protection and the Energy Turn with Means of Spatial Planning (pp. 55–72). 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 Promotion.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 19). Why You Shouldn’t Wrap Your Food In Aluminum Foil Before Cooking It. 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. (1991). FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB (IMTEC-91-22). 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

Paulone, S. (2013). Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Bosman, J., & Harmon, A. (2017, October 4). Love of Music Drew Victims To a Fatal Trap. 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 (Contreras, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Contreras, 2010; Johnson & Zagotta, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Zagotta, 2001)
Three authors: (McKinnon et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Stelling et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mental Health Promotion
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ment. Health Promot.
ISSN (print)	1462-3730
ISSN (online)	2049-8543
Scope	Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health