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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services. 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

Tyagi S. Genomics. E. coli, what a noisy bug. Science. 2010;329(5991):518-519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nodine MD, Bartel DP. Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos. Nature. 2012;482(7383):94-97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carpenter SJ, Erickson JM, Holland FD Jr. Migration of a Late Cretaceous fish. Nature. 2003;423(6935):70-74.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao WW, Liu Z, Shan S, et al. Bismuthoxyiodide nanoflakes/titania nanotubes arrayed p-n heterojunction and its application for photoelectrochemical bioanalysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Popkin JD. A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Campbell J, Baikaloff N, Power C, eds. Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow’s World. Vol 7. Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Krause J, Langhirt C, Sterff A, Pehlke B, Döring M. External Data Access. In: Langhirt C, Sterff A, Pehlke B, Döring M, eds. SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform. Apress; 2010:255-294.

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 Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services.

Blog post

Davis J. Gluten-Free Foods are no Healthier Than Regular Foods, Study Finds. IFLScience. Published July 7, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gluten-free-diet-really-healthier/

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. Compensatory Education: Aguilar v. Felton Decision’s Continuing Impact on Chapter 1 Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duffy B. Analytical Methods and Perturbation Theory for the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem of Astrodynamics. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2012.

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

Hay G. Measuring Risks at Europe’s Banks. New York Times. November 25, 2011:B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
Abbreviation	J. Psychosoc. Nurs. Ment. Health Serv.
ISSN (print)	0279-3695
ISSN (online)	1938-2413
Scope	Phychiatric Mental Health