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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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.
Dolgin E. Research technique: the murine candidate. Nature. 2011 Jun 8;474(7350):S14-5.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Moran TG, Davila JM. Three-dimensional polarimetric imaging of coronal mass ejections. Science. 2004 Jul 2;305(5680):66–70.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
Pan ZW, Dai ZR, Wang ZL. Nanobelts of semiconducting oxides. Science. 2001 Mar 9;291(5510):1947–9.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Guogas LM, Filman DJ, Hogle JM, Gehrke L. Cofolding organizes alfalfa mosaic virus RNA and coat protein for replication. Science. 2004 Dec 17;306(5704):2108–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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S. Bagotsky V, M. Skundin A, M. Volfkovich Y. Electrochemical Power Sources. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.
An edited book
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Huang DS, Li K, Irwin GW, editors. Intelligent Control and Automation: International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2006 Kunming, China, August 16–19, 2006. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XXV, 1121 p. (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; vol. 344).
A chapter in an edited book
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Dizon EZ. Underwater Archaeology of the San Diego a 1600 Spanish Galleon in the Philippines. In: Wu C, editor. Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 91–102.

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
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Carpineti A. ISS Completes Historic 100,000th Orbit Of Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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
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Government Accountability Office. Intellectual Property: Federal Agency Efforts in Transferring and Reporting New Technology. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Oct. Report No.: GAO-03-47.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Thixton HL. Identification of Site-Specific Mycorrhizal Fungi Associates of the Federally Threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) in Illinois [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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.
Cobb JG. A Whiff of That New-Car Smell Is Just a Page Flip Away. New York Times. 2017 Jan 19;B7.

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

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