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. Charlesworth D. Evolution. Competitive centromeres. Science. 2008;322:1484–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chen J, Novick RP. Phage-mediated intergeneric transfer of toxin genes. Science. 2009;323:139–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chave J, Alonso D, Etienne RS. Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature. 2006;441:E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lénárt P, Bacher CP, Daigle N, Hand AR, Eils R, Terasaki M, et al. A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes. Nature. 2005;436:812–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. DiMarzio JF. Beginning Android® Programming with Android Studio. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Arnoldner C. Manual of Otologic Surgery. Lin VYW, Chen JM, editors. Vienna: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gamsa M. Mixed Marriages in Russian-Chinese Manchuria. In: Ben-Canaan D, Grüner F, Prodöhl I, editors. Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 47–58.

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. Andrew E. Do Flies Have Emotions? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Information Technology: Homeland Security Needs to Improve Entry Exit System Expenditure Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jun. Report No.: GAO-03-563.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moro JM. School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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. Crow K. Dreams Taste Bittersweet As a Small Store Is Sold. New York Times. 2002 Aug 11;145.

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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