How to format your references using the Journal of Rural Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Rural 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

Gewin, V. (2007). Hub of alternative energy. Nature, 446(7131), 106.

A journal article with 2 authors

Türkmen, Y. E., & Aggarwal, V. K. (2014). A simpler route for making nitrogen-alkene rings. [corrected]. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6166), 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, K., Yeom, E., & Lee, S. J. (2014). Real-time imaging of pulvinus bending in Mimosa pudica. Scientific Reports, 4, 6466.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kanemaki, M., Sanchez-Diaz, A., Gambus, A., & Labib, K. (2003). Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo. Nature, 423(6941), 720–724.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao, J. (2015). Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Neck, R., Richter, C., & Mooslechner, P. (Eds.). (2008). Quantitative Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Andrew Hughes Hallett (Vol. 20). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, L., Wu, K., & Hamdi, M. (2014). Applications to Classic Problems. In K. Wu & M. Hamdi (Eds.), Attachment Transmission in Wireless Networks (pp. 29–57). Springer International Publishing.

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 Rural Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, April 26). Should We Worry About Arsenic In Baby Cereal And Drinking Water? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-we-worry-about-arsenic-baby-cereal-and-drinking-water/

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. (1992). High Risk Series: Guaranteed Student Loans (HR-93-2). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hagarty, E. P. (2008). A predictive risk modeling system for the management of small-scale water and wastewater facilities: Toward long-term sustainability of our national parks [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017, July 14). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2007; Türkmen & Aggarwal, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Türkmen & Aggarwal, 2014)
Three authors: (Song et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Kanemaki et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Rural Mental Health
Abbreviation	Rural Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	1935-942X
ISSN (online)	2163-8969
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