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

Ruddiman, W. F. (2006) Retrospective. Nicholas J. Shackleton (1937-2006). Science (New York, N.Y.), 312, 711.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosegrant, M. W., & Cline, S. A. (2003) Global food security: challenges and policies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, 1917–1919.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinther, J., Van Roy, P., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2008) Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids. Nature, 451, 185–188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Derry, L. A., Kurtz, A. C., Ziegler, K., et al. (2005) Biological control of terrestrial silica cycling and export fluxes to watersheds. Nature, 433, 728–731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B. (2008) Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Samorì, P. (Ed.) (2008) STM and AFM Studies on (Bio)molecular Systems: Unravelling the Nanoworld, Vol. 285. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hult, J. (2010) The Dangerous Steam Engine. In: Risks in Technological Systems (eds Grimvall, G., Holmgren, Å. J., Jacobsson, P., et al.), pp. 35–45. London: 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 26) How To See This Week’s Rare Alignment Of Venus, Mars, And Jupiter. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-alignment-mars-venus-and-jupiter-places-them-together-sky-week/

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 (2003) Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization (No. GAO-04-43). 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

Washington, S. (2010) Counseling students ability to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome (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

Pilon, M. (2013, February 16) A Scandal Leaves Its Mark. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruddiman, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rosegrant & Cline, 2003; Ruddiman, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Rosegrant & Cline, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Derry et al., 2005)

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

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