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

Vrakking M. Chemical physics: Electronic movies. Nature. 2009;460(7258):960-961.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barron AB, Brown MJF. Science journalism: Let’s talk about sex. Nature. 2012;488(7410):151-152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kender S, Yu J, Peck VL. Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4187.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Duy C, Hurtz C, Shojaee S, et al. BCL6 enables Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition. Nature. 2011;473(7347):384-388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taber DF. Organic Synthesis: State of the 2005-2007. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Li X, ed. Signal Processing in Neuroscience. Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruno D, Greco F, Lonetti P. Dynamic Crack Propagation in Composite Structures. In: Öchsner A, Silva LFM da, Altenbach H, eds. Materials with Complex Behaviour: Modelling, Simulation, Testing, and Applications. Advanced Structured Materials. Springer; 2010:57-81.

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

Luntz S. New Methane-Processing Microbes Hint At Common Metabolizing Ancestor. IFLScience. Published November 2, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-microbes-are-pandas-among-methane-processing-bears/

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. Transportation Safety: Medical Certification and Background Check Requirements for Pilots, Vessel Masters, and Commercial Drivers Vary. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kino MY. My Concierge MD, Inc. a Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Cooper M. The Met Stars in Its West Side Story. New York Times. September 15, 2017:AR10.

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

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