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

Smaglik, P. (2008). Beyond rocket science. Nature, 453(7196), 818–820.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, J., & Levin, V. (2002). Seismic anisotropy: tracing plate dynamics in the mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), 485–489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vokrouhlický, D., Nesvorný, D., & Bottke, W. F. (2003). The vector alignments of asteroid spins by thermal torques. Nature, 425(6954), 147–151.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Popescu, G., Robert, A., Howe, J. R., & Auerbach, A. (2004). Reaction mechanism determines NMDA receptor response to repetitive stimulation. Nature, 430(7001), 790–793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ludders, J. W., & McMillan, M. (2016). Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Corbeil, D. (Ed.). (2013). Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology (Vol. 777). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dongol, B., & Hayes, I. J. (2012). Rely/Guarantee Reasoning for Teleo-reactive Programs over Multiple Time Bands. In J. Derrick, S. Gnesi, D. Latella, & H. Treharne (Eds.), Integrated Formal Methods: 9th International Conference, IFM 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 18-21, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 39–53). 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 Promotion.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 25). The World’s Environments Are Being Destroyed Faster Than They Can Recover. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-environment-being-degraded-fast-it-can-recover/

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. (1975). Increased Compliance Needed With Nursing Home Health and Sanitary Standards (MWD-76-8). 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

Kuqi, K. (2013). A matrix-Based Method for Optimizing the User Interface Design of Electronic Medical Record Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Duerden, J. (2016, September 1). Amid Political Strain, Game’s Tension Rises. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Park & Levin, 2002; Smaglik, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Park & Levin, 2002)
Three authors: (Vokrouhlický et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Popescu et al., 2004)

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