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

Nelson J. Solar energy. Solar cells by self-assembly? Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1059–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bjørnstad ON, Grenfell BT. Noisy clockwork: time series analysis of population fluctuations in animals. Science. 2001 Jul 27;293(5530):638–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun L, Song K, Hase WL. A SN2 reaction that avoids its deep potential energy minimum. Science. 2002 May 3;296(5569):875–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dale GL, Friese P, Batar P, Hamilton SF, Reed GL, Jackson KW, et al. Stimulated platelets use serotonin to enhance their retention of procoagulant proteins on the cell surface. Nature. 2002 Jan 10;415(6868):175–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padilla E. Substation Automation Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Münster S, Pfarr-Harfst M, Kuroczyński P, Ioannides M, editors. 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage II: How to Manage Data and Knowledge Related to Interpretative Digital 3D Reconstructions of Cultural Heritage. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. X, 289 p. 132 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10025).

A chapter in an edited book

Menken K. Policy Failures: No Child Left Behind and English Language Learners. In: Groenke SL, Hatch JA, editors. Critical Pedagogy and Teacher Education in the Neoliberal Era: Small Openings. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 49–62. (Explorations of Educational Purpose).

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

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Japan Launches Spacecraft To Practice Removing Space Junk From Orbit. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/japan-space-space-junk-tether/

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. Information Technology: U.S. Postal Service Needs to Strengthen System Acquisition and Management Capabilities to Improve Its Intelligent Mail Full Service Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct. Report No.: GAO-10-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Colna KE. Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

Crow K. Helping Stamp Collectors and the Postally Confused. New York Times. 2000 Dec 10;148.

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