How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 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

Crooks RM. Therapeutics: Detective work on drug dosage. Nature. 2014 Jan 9;505(7482):165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steinberger B, Torsvik TH. Absolute plate motions and true polar wander in the absence of hotspot tracks. Nature. 2008 Apr 3;452(7187):620–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

David SS, O’Shea VL, Kundu S. Base-excision repair of oxidative DNA damage. Nature. 2007 Jun 21;447(7147):941–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Doiron-Leyraud N, Walker IR, Taillefer L, Steiner MJ, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG. Fermi-liquid breakdown in the paramagnetic phase of a pure metal. Nature. 2003 Oct 9;425(6958):595–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Helsel DR. Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Christianson B, Malcolm J, Stajano F, Anderson J, Bonneau J, editors. Security Protocols XXI: 21st International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 19-20, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. X, 267 p. 23 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8263).

A chapter in an edited book

Wan S, Yu J, Wang N, Wang C, Liu F. An Algorithm for Constructing Strongly Connected Dominating and Absorbing Sets in Wireless Networks with Unidirectional Links. In: Sun L, Ma H, Hong F, editors. Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: 7th China Conference, CWSN 2013, Qingdao, China, October 17-19, 2013 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 41–50. (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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 Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. What Causes Brazil’s Bizarre “Meeting of the Waters”? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-causes-brazil’s-bizarre-meeting-waters/

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. International Broadcasting: Construction of U.S. Radio Relay Station in Israel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-90-123FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Obeng-Dompreh S. The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. I’m a Lumber Jack (Omelet, That Is). New York Times. 2007 Apr 22;NJ6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
ISSN (online)	0973-1342
Scope