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

Barrett CB. Measuring food insecurity. Science. 2010 Feb 12;327(5967):825–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Attrill MJ, Power M. Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage. Nature. 2002 May 16;417(6886):275–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Faucher-Giguère CA, Lidz A, Hernquist L. Numerical simulations unravel the cosmic web. Science. 2008 Jan 4;319(5859):52–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song NN, Yang HT, Liu HL, Ren X, Ding HF, Zhang XQ, et al. Exceeding natural resonance frequency limit of monodisperse Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles via superparamagnetic relaxation. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 7;3:3161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonilla LL, Teitsworth SW. Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Tan KY, editor. Transdisciplinary Perioperative Care in Colorectal Surgery: An Integrative Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. VIII, 269 p. 73 illus., 62 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Hou Y, Li E, Sun S. Research on Testing Methods of I-V Characteristics of Solar Photovoltaic Cell Array. In: Hu W, editor. Electronics and Signal Processing: Selected Papers from the 2011 International Conference on Electric and Electronics (EEIC 2011) in Nanchang, China on June 20–22, 2011, Volume 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 23–8. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering).

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; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Meet The Woman With Two Vaginas. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/meet-woman-two-vginas/

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. Aviation Safety: Emergency Revocation Orders of Air Carrier Certificates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Oct. Report No.: RCED-92-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bailey SM. Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 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

Detrick B. The Drift. New York Times. 2017 Jan 31;D6.

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