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

Sukhdev, P. (2012). Sustainability: The corporate climate overhaul. Nature, 486(7401), 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morehouse, N. I., & Rutowski, R. L. (2009). Comment on “Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5944), 1072; author reply 1072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hnasko, T. S., Sotak, B. N., & Palmiter, R. D. (2005). Morphine reward in dopamine-deficient mice. Nature, 438(7069), 854–857.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nojima, S., Schal, C., Webster, F. X., Santangelo, R. G., & Roelofs, W. L. (2005). Identification of the sex pheromone of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1104–1106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Martini, D. (2013). Success Probability Estimation with Applications to Clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tiwari, R. (2014). Aiming Big with Small Cars: Emergence of a Lead Market in India (C. Herstatt, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pryl, K., & Svitak, Z. (2006). URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE MODELLING. In P. Hlavinek, T. Kukharchyk, J. Marsalek, & I. Mahrikova (Eds.), Integrated Urban Water Resources Management (pp. 43–50). Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 22). ALMA Revisits Hubble’s Famous Ultra Deep Field Image Of The Distant Universe. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2012). Information Technology Reform: Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned (GAO-12-756). 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

Dandavate, R. (2006). Building Cultural Understanding Through Cultural Exchange [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Powell, M. (2017, April 27). You’re No. 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... ). New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sukhdev, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Morehouse & Rutowski, 2009; Sukhdev, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Morehouse & Rutowski, 2009)
Three authors: (Hnasko et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Nojima et al., 2005)

About the journal

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

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