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

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

1. Nadis S. Astronomers reveal the secrets of the name game. Nature. 2000;406:819.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kasting JF, Siefert JL. Life and the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere. Science. 2002;296:1066–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tellis JC, Primer DN, Molander GA. Dual catalysis. Single-electron transmetalation in organoboron cross-coupling by photoredox/nickel dual catalysis. Science. 2014;345:433–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Aoki T, Dayan B, Wilcut E, Bowen WP, Parkins AS, Kippenberg TJ, et al. Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator. Nature. 2006;443:671–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lane C. Magnolia. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Madenci E. The Finite Element Method and Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS®. Second Edition. Guven I, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zalewski J. The Post-Process Era in Composition Studies and the Linguistic Turn of the 20th Century. In: Gabryś-Barker D, Piechurska-Kuciel E, Zybert J, editors. Investigations in Teaching and Learning Languages: Studies in Honour of Hanna Komorowska. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 51–61.

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 Systems.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. NASA Is Going To Make An Announcement About A Mission To “Touch The Sun” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-is-going-to-make-an-announcement-about-a-mission-to-touch-the-sun/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Pell Grants: Who Receives Them and What Would Larger Grants Cost? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Jun. Report No.: HRD-88-106BR.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thomas LE. Youth Art Ambassadors: A Youth Participatory Action Research Project Using Social Justice to Incite Change in Classrooms where Teachers Teach Young People of Color [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. STEVEN LEE MYERS; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting for this article. Russian Court Delays Ruling In Fraud Trial Of Oil Tycoon. New York Times. 2005 May 17;A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ment. Health Syst.
ISSN (online)	1752-4458
Scope	Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Phychiatric Mental Health