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

Knight, J. (2001). Celera and Motorola brought in to aid hunt for disease genes. Nature, 413(6851), 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly, P.-B., & Rip, A. (2007). A timely harvest. Nature, 450(7167), 174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skourti-Stathaki, K., Kamieniarz-Gdula, K., & Proudfoot, N. J. (2014). R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators. Nature, 516(7531), 436–439.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rini, M., Tobey, R., Dean, N., Itatani, J., Tomioka, Y., Tokura, Y., Schoenlein, R. W., & Cavalleri, A. (2007). Control of the electronic phase of a manganite by mode-selective vibrational excitation. Nature, 449(7158), 72–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stuart, B. (2012). Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Joshi, Y. M., & Khandekar, S. (Eds.). (2015). Nanoscale and Microscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Mozyrska, D., & Wyrwas, M. (2015). Fractional Linear Equations with Discrete Operators of Positive Order. In K. J. Latawiec, M. Łukaniszyn, & R. Stanisławski (Eds.), Advances in Modelling and Control of Non-integer-Order Systems: 6th Conference on Non-integer Order Calculus and Its Applications, 2014 Opole, Poland (pp. 47–58). 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. (2014, August 9). New ALS Treatment Shows Promise. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-als-treatment-shows-promise/

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. (2006). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (GAO-07-131R). 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

Clendening, R. J. (2009). A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge [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

Feeney, K. (2007, September 9). Beachfront Cafe. New York Times, 14NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Joly & Rip, 2007; Knight, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Joly & Rip, 2007)
Three authors: (Skourti-Stathaki et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Rini et al., 2007)

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