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

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

1. Barbier EB. Economics: Account for depreciation of natural capital. Nature. 2014;515:32–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hathaway DH, Rightmire L. Variations in the Sun’s meridional flow over a solar cycle. Science. 2010;327:1350–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blum R, Kafitz KW, Konnerth A. Neurotrophin-evoked depolarization requires the sodium channel Na(V)1.9. Nature. 2002;419:687–93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kim PM, Lu LJ, Xia Y, Gerstein MB. Relating three-dimensional structures to protein networks provides evolutionary insights. Science. 2006;314:1938–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McDonald AG, Magande HL. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Kessel D, Ray C, editors. Transcatheter Embolization and Therapy. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Assadi F, Sharbaf FG. Pharmacokinetics of CRRT. In: Ghane Sharbaf F, editor. Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Principles and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 99–120.

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 Rehabilitation and Mental Health.

Blog post

1. Fang J. What Can Rats Wearing Jackets Tell Us About Men Who Love Lingerie? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. FAA Systems: Serious Challenges Remain in Resolving Year 2000 and Computer Security Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-251.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gwaduri E. A personal narrative: Struggles and experiences of acculturation as a Pakistani Shia Muslim while battling immigration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

1. Kelly RW. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2012 May 25;A2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Rehabilitation and Mental Health
Abbreviation	J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	2198-9834
ISSN (online)	2198-963X
Scope