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. Shore B. Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002). Nature. 2002;416:384.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Matsuura Y, Stewart M. Structural basis for the assembly of a nuclear export complex. Nature. 2004;432:872–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Agathon A, Thisse C, Thisse B. The molecular nature of the zebrafish tail organizer. Nature. 2003;424:448–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Han SH, Cho FH, Song YK, Paulsen J, Song YQ, Kim YR, et al. Ultrafast 3D spin-echo acquisition improves Gadolinium-enhanced MRI signal contrast enhancement. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5061.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pasternak H, Hoch H-U, Füg D. Stahltragwerke im Industriebau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Erzurumlu R, Guido W, Molnár Z, editors. Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Irani D, Balduzzi M, Balzarotti D, Kirda E, Pu C. Reverse Social Engineering Attacks in Online Social Networks. In: Holz T, Bos H, editors. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 8th International Conference; DIMVA 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-8, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 55–74.

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. Davis J. Deep Sea Expedition Records Animal Behavior Only Known From 252-Million-Year-Old Fossils [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deep-sea-expedition-records-animal-behavior-only-known-from-252millionyearold-fossils/

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Justify Further Investment in Its Oceanic Display System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-92-80.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Meeks JD. From the belly of the HUAC: The HUAC investigations of Hollywood, 1947–1952 [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Walker M. Choosing Photographs Over Paintings. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;C14.

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
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