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

Davé, R. (2015) Computational astrophysics: Monstrous galaxies unmasked. Nature, 525, 465–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wikelski, M., & Thom, C. (2000) Marine iguanas shrink to survive El Niño. Nature, 403, 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana, C. C., Misra, A., & Ching, W.-Y. (2014) Quantum mechanical metric for internal cohesion in cement crystals. Scientific Reports, 4, 7332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Renault, M., Shintu, L., Piotto, M., et al. (2013) Slow-spinning low-sideband HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy: delicate analysis of biological samples. Scientific Reports, 3, 3349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Banerjee, S., & Lawrence, V. (2010) Managing Dementia in a Multicultural Society. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hanvey, C., & Sady, K. (Eds.) (2015) Practitioner’s Guide to Legal Issues in Organizations. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodríguez, A., Selga, J., Martín, F., et al. (2013) Practical Application of Space Mapping Techniques to the Synthesis of CSRR-Based Artificial Transmission Lines. In: Surrogate-Based Modeling and Optimization: Applications in Engineering (eds Koziel, S., & Leifsson, L.), pp. 81–97. New York, NY: 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

Hale, T. (2016, September 28) Can You Flush A Toilet With Liquid Mercury? Kind Of. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/can-you-flush-a-toilet-with-liquid-mercury-kind-of/

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 (1990) Highway Financing: Participating States Benefit Under Toll Facilities Pilot Program (No. RCED-91-46). 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

Campbell, A. J. (2012) History transformed: Sengoku Daimyo in Japanese popular media (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003, August 5) A Homecoming for Balanchine; City Ballet Shows St. Petersburg That a Master’s Art Is Still Alive. New York Times, p. E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davé, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Davé, 2015; Wikelski & Thom, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Wikelski & Thom, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Renault et al., 2013)

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