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

Makalowski, W. (2003). Genomics. Not junk after all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1246–1247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wahl, E. R., & Morrill, C. (2010). Climate change. Toward understanding and predicting monsoon patterns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 437–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Cuaresma, J. C., & Sanderson, W. (2008). Economics. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1047–1048.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sánchez-Luque, F. J., Stich, M., Manrubia, S., Briones, C., & Berzal-Herranz, A. (2014). Efficient HIV-1 inhibition by a 16 nt-long RNA aptamer designed by combining in vitro selection and in silico optimisation strategies. Scientific Reports, 4, 6242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist, J. G. (2005). Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bra, P. D., Kobsa, A., & Chin, D. (Eds.). (2010). User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 18th International Conference, UMAP 2010, Big Island, HI, USA, June 20-24, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6075). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi, H., Yeom, K., Choi, Y., & Moon, M. (2006). An Approach to Quality Achievement at the Architectural Level: AQUA. In R. Gorrieri & H. Wehrheim (Eds.), Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 20–32). 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

Fang, J. (2015, June 19). Giant Bat Walked On All Fours 16 Million Years Ago in New Zealand. 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. (2015). Federal Research: DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management Improvements (GAO-15-212). 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

Aikens, F. A. (2012). An Examination of Ethical Behavior, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intent in Southern Ohio QSR Operations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, January 17). Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Makalowski, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Makalowski, 2003; Wahl & Morrill, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wahl & Morrill, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sánchez-Luque et al., 2014)

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