How to format your references using the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 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	Download the output style file
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

Shen, H. (2014) Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code. Nature, 515, 151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catalan, G., & Scott, J. F. (2007) Magnetoelectrics: is CdCr2S4 a multiferroic relaxor? Nature, 448, E4-5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nieder, A., Diester, I., & Tudusciuc, O. (2006) Temporal and spatial enumeration processes in the primate parietal cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313, 1431–1435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, C., Kim, J., Utama, M. I. B., et al. (2018) Imaging of pure spin-valley diffusion current in WS2-WSe2 heterostructures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360, 893–896.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edwards, J. (2004) Telecosmos. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, T.-C., Ouyang, P., Kaplan, S., et al. (Eds.) (2014) Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Applied Biotechnology (ICAB 2012): Volume 1, Vol. 249. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fraczak, W., & Miller, A. (2012) Disjoint Set Forest Digraph Representation for an Efficient Dominator Tree Construction. In: Combinatorial Algorithms: 23rd International Workshop, IWOCA 2012, Tamil Nadu, India, July 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (eds Arumugam, S., & Smyth, W. F.), pp. 46–59. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 25) Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/automatic-sperm-extractor-introduced-chinese-hospital/

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 (1987) Biotechnology: Role of Institutional Biosafety Committees (No. RCED-88-64BR). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turner, L. B. (2012) Diet, physical activity and breast cancer risk: An integrative science cross-populational approach (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, C. (2009, February 15) My Other Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane. New York Times, p. BU2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Shen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Catalan & Scott, 2007; Shen, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Catalan & Scott, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Psychiatr. Ment. Health Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1351-0126
ISSN (online)	1365-2850
Scope	Phychiatric Mental Health